You can't be too careful about work. It's the most dangerous habit known to medical science.

Stay passed out, that's the right dope. There ain't any cool willow trees- except you grow your own in a bottle.

Sometimes it's good to let people swim in ocean of ignorance and let them struggle to the shores of enlightenment.

...I'm a modern mountebank - I believe in Physiognomy - after all, we are in control of our face - it's the map of where we've been...

To actually feel like you've done something good with your life and you're useful to others is what I was always wanting, and was always looking for.

A very populous city can rarely, if ever, be well governed.

It is impossible for an abortion clinic to have a waiting list of more than nine months.

Each day the worst of our faults, our deficiencies, our crimes, the truth of our lives, is stifled under a triple layer of forgetfulness, death and the ordinary course of justice.

Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.

The way you become divine is to become wholly human

A scientific discovery is also a religious discovery. There is no conflict between science and religion. Our knowledge of God is made larger with every discovery we make about the world.

Most of us have the tools we need, we're just not sure how to use them.