The fundamental activity of medical science is to determine the ultimate causation of disease.

It was not noisy prejudice that caused the work of Mendel to lie dead for thirty years, but the sheer inability of contemporary opinion to distinguish between a new idea and nonsense.

If we watch ourselves honestly we shall often find that we have begun to argue against a new idea even before it has been completely stated.

Disease often tells its secrets in a casual parenthesis.

Weeping is not the same thing as crying. It takes your whole body to weep, and when it's over, you feel like you don't have any bones left to hold you up.

I am not worried, Harry, " said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. "I am with you.

Freedom goes hand-in-hand with mutual respect.

All of my novels are democracies.

Doing a show is very similar to what meditation is supposed to be: being there and being present in that space and time.

Opinion is something wherein I go about to give reasons why all the world should think as I think.

The events which can not be prevented, must be directed.

It is not possible to become a great player without having learned how to analyse deeply and accurately.

I don’t believe man is woman’s natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is.

Everything happens for a reason and that reason is there to assist me.