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I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don't like. No other criterion exists for me.
When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me.
Death is terrifying, but it would be even more terrifying to find out that you are going to live forever and never die.
There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.
The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.
In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.
When we torture people, even if we win the battle, we've already lost the war for hearts and minds. Especially our own.
I'm as deeply suspicious of big government as anyone. I'm strongly in favor of universal coverage but not single payer.
Although feelings are not supposed to intrude on business discussions, they do anyway - we just disguise them as logic.
The fact that data is always evolving is a good thing. It means that science is continuing, and we are always learning.
The Keystone pipeline will spew a massive amount of carbon pollution into our fragile atmosphere. It should be stopped.
[ Iraq and Afghanistan] don't get better, they only get worse. Bombing them has only enabled them to grow and multiply.
The problem [of climat changing] is only getting worse - that to me underscores that we need a transformative solution.
Milk contains growth hormones designed by Mother Nature to put a few hundred pounds on a baby calf within a few months.
At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance.
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
No single food will make or break good health. But the kinds of food you choose day in and day out have a major impact.
When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
My advice for writers is to get a good day job. It takes the pressure off writing if you have a job that pays the bills.
For schizophrenia, the recovery rate with drug therapy is under 15%. With nutritional therapy, the recovery rate is 80%.
The same skills that I used as a welder, as a migrant farm worker, are similar skills that I'm using as a brain surgeon.
It's even pleasant to be sick when you know that there are people who await your recovery as they might await a holiday.
Neither I nor anyone else knows what a standard is. We all recognize a dishonorable act, but have no idea what honor is.
There are in life conjunctions of circumstances when the reproach that we are not Voltaires is least of all appropriate.
Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses
My practical approach based on experience is to create a website for real Internet users, not for search engine spiders.
Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.
Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.
The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alone hold it together.
The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.
Public health is purchasable. Within a few natural and important limitations any community can determine its own health.
To lose one's health renders science null, are inglorious, strength unavailing, wealth useless, and eloquence powerless.
The mythology is that political change happens only in election years. The truth is you build from election to election.
The single greatest impediment to error prevention in the medical industry is that we punish people for making mistakes.
Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
Some people say they feel very small when they think about space. I felt more expansive, very connected to the universe.
The greatest sign of success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
The world of education is like an island where people cut off from the world are prepared for life by exclusion from it.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.
Men who are devoid of the power of spiritual perception are unable to recognize anything that cannot be seen externally.
He who knows nothing, loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless.
My feeling is that if you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society.
Large-scale philanthropy, based in the private - not the public - sector, is a relatively recent historical development.
Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all, the surest reposals, the softest cushions to lean on in adversity.
The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.
Patients rarely die of the disease from which they suffer. Secondary or terminal infections are the real cause of death.
By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.