It is almost impossible to be a doctor and an honest man, but it is obscenely impossible to be a psychiatrist without at the same time bearing the stamp of the most incontestable madness: that of being unable to resist that old atavistic reflex of the mass of humanity, which makes any man of science who is absorbed by this mass a kind of natural and inborn enemy of all genius.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Albert Schweitzer

You can't treat a car like a patient. A car needs love.

Gerhard Kocher

On the trail of another man, the biographer must put up with finding himself at every turn; any biography uneasily shelters an autobiography within it.

Paul Murray Kendall

Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness.

Percy Wynham Lewis, The Art of B

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

E. B. White

I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us.

Chinua Achebe

The White House alone cannot hold its opponents accountable.

Paul Weyrich

Peace without justice is tyranny.

William Allen White

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Anwar Sadat

My heart's with you, Bill, no matter how it turns out. My heart is with all of them, and I think that, even if we forget each other, we'll remember in our dreams.

Stephen King

“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is…we were made for another world.”

C. S. Lewis

Hardship and opposition are the native soil of manhood and self-reliance.

John Neil