A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

Very few [doctors] are men of science in any very serious sense; they're men of technique.

I have no skills with machines. I fear them, and because I cannot help attributing human qualities to them, I suspect that they hate me and will kill me if they can.

The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.

I am quite a wise old bird, but I am no desert hermit who can only prophesy when his guts are knotted with hunger. I am deep in the old man’s puzzle, trying to link the wisdom of the body with the wisdom of the spirit until the two are one.

The Bible takes much of its color from whoever is reading it, and it provides a text to support almost every shade of opinion, however preposterous.

"There is no disputing about tastes," says the old saw. In my experience there is little else.