We don't know if capital punishment is a deterrent, but we know that men we execute will not murder again.

Any man can turn traitor.

Power wears out those who do not have it.

Never let a domestic quarrel ruin a day's writing. If you can't start the day fresh, get rid of your wife.

It was a lie but he believed in telling lies to people. Truth telling and medicine just didn't go together except in dire emergencies, if then.

Italians have a little joke, that the world is so hard a man must have two fathers to look after him, and that's why they have godfathers.

He smelled the garden, the yellow shield of light smote his eyes, and he whispered, "Life is so beautiful." ... Yes, he thought, if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful," then nothing else is important.