I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.

Advice to first year medical students: In anatomy, it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all.

It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.

Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.

Women are strange little beasts,' he said to Dr. Coutras. 'You can treat them like dogs, you can beat them till your arm aches, and still they love you.' He shrugged his shoulders. 'Of course, it is one of the most absurd illusions of Christianity that they have souls.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

Thank God, I can look at a sunset now without having to think how to describe it