Printer's ink, when it spells out a doctor's promise to cure, is one of the subtlest and most dangerous of poisons.

We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.

The ordinary run of advertising is nothing more than an effort to sell something by yelling in print.

Ignorance and credulous hope make the market for most proprietary remedies.

Anything is easy to the man who sees.... The open eye of the open mind--that has more to do with real detective work than all the deduction and induction and analysis ever devised.

The path of the pursuer and the prey often run obscurely parallel.

Shut your eyes to the medical columns of the newspapers, and you will save yourself many forebodings and symptoms.

Work won't do me any good ... I've tried it, and it bored me worse than the other thing.

Boredom is simply romanticism with a morning-after thirst.

You never get bored ... when you have the probabilities of your next meal to speculate on, pro and con.

With the exception of lawyers, there is no profession which, considers itself above the law so widely as the medical profession.

Couldn't he have come out and greeted her like a civil human being instead of lurking from his kitchen while she shared a clearly intimate moment with his brisket?

She wants her cup of stars.

Think clearly, act sensibly, commit yourself to caring and work hard in order to discover joy. Then give the images back to the world from which they were taken.

Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature.

When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.

Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.

This is a tournament. The others are all championships.

I've heard Eric Clapner, ... I think it was a wonderful thing that Eric Clapner the musician did...So I think that's the wonderful part about it, but listen - I like Eric Clapner!

In the end, no thought is unthinkable, no problem unshrinkable, no two strangers unlinkable.

We can all be weak, but we all have to make a conscious decision to be strong.