People who care nothing about money probably exist or we wouldn't hear so much about them. But I've never encountered one in the flesh.

It's easy to respond to the hate cries, usually carefully wrapped up in a flag. Perhaps hate is the greatest simplifier of them all. It's the man with the throb in his voice, the man with the easy formula, the man who tries to shout to my emotions instead of speaking to my mind, the man who is sure he is right that I run from like hell.

a fair degree of literacy of speech ... is increasingly rare in politicians and not necessarily regarded as an asset.

The young never take anything seriously if it sounds simple.

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

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

People don't really change. Not fundamentally. When they surprise us, it is because we failed to recognize their potentialities.