People who praise illness as bringing out the best in people ought to have their heads examined. Pain forces you to think about yourself, directs your interest to your own body and what is happening to it. You don't reach out benevolently, filled with good will for others. You don't seem to care enough. Pain makes you a little person, not a big one, and not a nice one, except perhaps in the case of saints, and I've never known one.

cruelty is the only thing that strikes me as completely unforgivable. The unpardonable sin.

People who praise illness as bringing out the best in people ought to have their heads examined. Pain forces you to think about yourself, directs your interest to your own body and what is happening to it. You don't reach out benevolently, filled with good will for others. You don't seem to care enough. Pain makes you a little person, not a big one, and not a nice one, except perhaps in the case of saints, and I've never known one.

The doctor will persist in laboring under the delusion that patients want common sense instead of magic.

Every murder strikes at the heart of civilization; it is an attack on all mankind.

minutes weren't given you to save but to spend. This is yours - now. Stop and live it.

I always feel sorry for people who think more about a rainy day ahead than sunshine today.