There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

Courage is grace under pressure.

The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.