What do I want in a doctor? Perhaps more than anything else-a friend with special knowledge.

It's one of the great fallacies, it seems to me, that time gives much of anything but years and sadness to man.

Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.

Thou mayest rule over sin.

It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.

You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.

It is my experience that in some areas [my poodle] Charley is more intelligent that I am, but in others he is abysmally ignorant. He can't read, can't drive a car, and has no grasp of mathematics. But in his own field of endeavor, which he is now practicing, the slow, imperial smelling over and anointing on an area, he has no peer. Of course his horizons are limited, but how wide are mine?