Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.

With modern American dentistry it is simply amazing to see what transformation can be wrought in a single day.

It's not at all good when your cancer is 'palpable' from the outside. Especially when, as at this stage, they didn't even know where the primary source was. Carcinoma works cunningly from the inside out. Detection and treatment often work more slowly and gropingly, from the outside in.

Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.

Religion gets its morality from us. We don't get our morality from religion.

The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal.

Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.