Very few [doctors] are men of science in any very serious sense; they're men of technique.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

I cannot imagine any boy of spirit who would not be delighted to play a drunkard even to vomiting in front of his Sunday school. Indeed, the vomiting might be the chief attraction of the role.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.

Don't be reckless. Don't play it safe.

You can't sweeten the well by painting the pump.

A baseball manager has learned a lot about his job from having played the game, but a parent has not learned a thing from having once been a child.

The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business.

Believing that no one is better than the other. You know I grew up in the South. My senior year there was a very big racial tension.

I believe in collaboration. I think that is the most entertaining and effective way to write for me, personally.

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you.

The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.

If someone tells you something cannot be done; it's just their way of saying they cannot do it