[his healing skills] ..lay in the ability to comfort, to comfort in the proper sense, to make strong, to fortify

Nobody seems to understand that in such matters the tact and sympathy should come from the one who is about to die, not the poor bugger who has to take the news.

The roughest roads often lead to the top.

May the Lord revive and restore you to good health.

The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties.

We live in a world where there is a need for pluralistic institutions and for recognizing different types of freedom, economic, social, cultural, and political, which are interrelated.

Open your hearts. Deep inside ourselves, we are all one and the same.

Now, it is the view of the Ministry that a theoretical knowledge will be more than sufficient to get you through your examination, which, after all, is what school is all about.

Film allows me to ask some really big questions with the time to explore them deeply. I love the form.

Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks.

Some men, who begin by saying that the world is a hell, often end by saying that it is a heaven when they succeed in the practice of self-control.

I like pain. I like when it lingers. It reminds a person of what they've lived through.