The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as - carried too far - one of its weaknesses.

If we are to give our utmost effort and skill and enthusiasm, we must believe in ourselves, which means believing in our past and in our future, in our parents and in our children, in that particular blend of moral purpose and practical inventiveness which is the American character.

As far back as our knowledge takes us, human beings have lived in families. We know of no period when this was not so. We know of no people who have succeeded for long in dissolving the family or displacing it.

Never underestimate that a small group of people can hold up a liquor license. Sometimes, it's the only thing that can.

Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.

This is a precious possession which we cannot afford to tarnish, but society always is attempting to make the physician into a killer to kill the defective child at birth, to leave the sleeping pills beside the bed of the cancer patient ... It is the duty of society to protect the physicians from such requests.

No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.