Time indeed has very little to do with living except at its beginning or near its end.

Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.

The two best subjects for conversation are talking shop and making love.

Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life; but what are called 'common men and women' have increased it.

it must depend as much upon the patient's willingness to be cured, as upon the physician's skill in curing. There is neither force not magic in psychiatry.

Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.

... the ears of the hunted grow even keener than a hunter's.