If I am to care for people in hospital I really must know every aspect of their treatment and to understand their suffering.

But when one believes that you've been appointed by God for a particular mission in history, you have to be very careful about that, how you speak about that. Where is the self-reflection in that? Where is the humility in that?

Jim Wallis

Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.

William Shakespeare

We grew to know the meaning of love. That is what allowed me and my family to stay close together.

Martin Lawrence

I came from a real tough neighborhood. In the local restaurant I sat down and had broken leg of lamb.

Rodney Dangerfield

If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Simon Rattle

We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.

Ann Coulter

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

Mark Twain

Global warming isn't a prediction. It is happening.

James Hansen

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.

Augusten Burroughs

I love the art of acting, and I love film, because you always have anther chance if you want it. You know, if we - if this isn't going well, you can't say - well, you could say - let's stop. Let's start over again, Gene, because you were too nervous.

Gene Wilder

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?

Thomas Babington Macaulay

A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison.

Francis Bacon