Be bold, free, and truthful.

If only I had a wife!" I used to think, "who could stay home and keep the children happy, why I could support six of them. A cinch.

Science and vivisection make no appeal to a theological idea, much less a political one. You can argue with a theologian or a politician, but doctors are sacrosanct. They know; you do not. Science has its mystique much more powerful than any religion active today.

The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny.

We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious.

We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role.

Creative power flourishes only when I am living in the present.