When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.

Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context.

Why should I? I've done nothing to be ashamed of. I am not ashamed - I am only beaten

I shall pray God to send charity into this hideous world, and sympathy for the weak, and love for the unhappy and unfortunate. I shall ask Him if it is indeed His will that a child should suffer and its soul be damned for a little blemish of the body.

To deprive a gregarious creature of companionship is to maim it, to outrage its nature. The prisoner and the cenobite are aware that the herd exists beyond their exile; they are an aspect of it. But when the herd no longer exists, there is, for the herd creature, no longer entity, a part of no whole; a freak without a place. If he cannot hold on to his reason, then he is lost indeed; most utterly, most fearfully lost, so that he becomes no more than the twitch in the limb of a corpse.

The clock is the most sacred thing in a hospital.

The essential quality of life is living' the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution; and we are part of it.