There is always a better way.

The dove is my emblem.

I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.

The money one gets for selling one's soul is always spent in deadening one's conscience, so the net gain at the end of a lifetime is no greater than if the diabolic bargain had not been struck.

Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.

The value of a good idea is in using it.

Nineteen hundred and three will bring great advances in surgery, in the study of bacteria, in the knowledge of the cause and prevention of disease. Medicine is played out. Every new discovery of bacteria shows us all the more convincingly that we have been wrong and that the million tons of stuff we have taken was all useless.