Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

To speak the truth is the most difficult of all arts, for in its "pure" form, not connected with the interests of individuals, groups, classes, or nations, truth is almost completely unsuitable for use by the Philistine and is unacceptable to him.

All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I've even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.

Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.

The illness of a doctor is always worse than the illnesses of his patients.The patients only feel, but the doctor, as well as feeling, has a pretty good idea of the destructive effect of the disease on his constitution.This is a case in which knowledge brings death nearer.

When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.