When someone stabs you it's not your fault that you feel pain.

Don't mistake dramatics for a conscience.

I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters.

Let every man shovel out his own snow, and the whole city will be passable, " said Gamache. Seeing Beauvoir's puzzled expression he added, "Emerson.""Lake and Palmer?""Ralph and Waldo.

Now here's a good one:you're lying on your deathbed.You have one hour to live.Who is it, exactly, you have neededall these years to forgive?

I often think we should have tattooed on the back of whatever hand we use to shoot or write, 'I might be wrong.

There are generally three parties to child abuse: the abused, the abuser and the bystander.

The sky is the limit only for those who aren't afraid to fly!

Being is good, but getting rich is better.... If the gods had only the riches of men's adoration, they would be as poor as poor Caligula.

Good never come of such evil, a happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning.

Traditional medical ethics, based on the doctor-patient relationship must be changed... The primary function of health care regulations should be to limit an individuals own decision-making!

For repeating themselves from the first kiss to the last sigh, the average man's love affairs have History blushing with envy.

You were hidden behind walls of ice; no man had passed them; I broke them down and love leapt to love, and you lie here, my beautiful, love in the arms of its lover.

A man knows no more in religion than he loves and embraceth with the affections of his soul.

I think Jews are the smartest people in the world

The person who praises God is on the tracks of justice.

I would have remembered the good stuff. Nobody ever remembers the good stuff.