Suggested remedy for the common cold: A good gulp of whiskey at bedtime-it's not very scientific, but it helps.

The unprepared mind cannot see the outstretched hand of opportunity.

Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy.

One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.

Nature makes penicillin; I just found it.

It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject: the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to the enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.

(The discovery of penicillin) was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic bacteriological problem.

Penicillin sat on a shelf for ten years while I was called a quack.

If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life.

Lifting his gaze to Graham, he reached over and cupped his cheek. "I'm not much on sharing emotions and crap.

If you really want to understand a man, don't just listen to what he says but watch what he does.

If you change the society and a culture, the politics will follow.

I had to face the possibility that the art of living in the way of Jesus was no longer carried on in a holistic way by any single tradition.

You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.

Even if plants were sentient, veganism would still be a moral imperative given that it takes many pounds of plants to produce one pound of flesh.

Bid for connection: Each of our daily interactions with another person.

Soft focus is an important skill that can effect us metaphorically. In other words, the way we see the future has everything to do with how well we can look up and see the expanded horizon before us.

It was the price of survival. The cost of his people's last, desperate gamble: To rid his new home of humanity, he had to become human. And being human, he had to overcome his humanity.

The general difference between conservatives and liberals is that liberals like pretty pictures and conservatives like to build bridges that people can drive across.