We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

I am a human being, so nothing human is strange to me.

Do not run away; let go. Do not seek, for it will come when least expected.

Never for me the lowered banner, never the last endeavour.

Genealogy is based on the obviously silly idea that there is no such thing as a bastard.

The headline reads, "Docs say patients make them prescribe useless antibiotics." This puts a physician in roughly the same predicament as a serial killer. The latter says, "Stop me before I kill again, while the former says, "Stop me before I prescribe again."

When a dog acts viciously we assume the reason is poor treatment and training by its owner. When a person acts criminally we look for the explanation in his brain, blood, and urine. When will psychiatrists begin testifying to the incompetence of schizophrenic pit bulls?

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.