Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.

One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.

The majority of people believe in incredible things which are absolutely false. The majority of people daily act in a manner prejudicial to their general well-being.

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.

In teaching it is the method and not the content that is the message.

The indications are that swearing preceded the development of cursing. That is, expletives, maledictions, exclamations, and imprecations of the immediately explosive or vituperative kind preceded the speechmaking and later rituals involved in the deliberate apportioning of the fate of an enemy. Swearing of the former variety is from the lips only, but the latter is from the heart. Damn it! is not that same as Damn you!

Girls marry for love. Boys marry because of a chronic irritation that causes them to gravitate in the direction of objects with certain curvilinear properties.