The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of all, in the training of interns, is the irresistible drive to do something, anything. It is expected by patients and too often agreed to by their doctors, in the face of ignorance.

I just got tired of being sick and tired and feeling down. Unfortunately, you don't realize this until you're getting sober but the reason why you're depressed all the time is it's the drugs that are depressing you.

Steven Adler

If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating.

Leigh Hunt

If you follow only one rule, let it be this one: Be yourself. The really strong boy-girl relationships are based on what people really are, not on what they pretend to be.

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There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

English Proverb

And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written.

Mark Strand

I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.

Gary Ross

Paris is always a good idea.

Audrey Hepburn

Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.

Euripides

Nothing lowers the level on conversation more than raising the voice.

Stanley Horowitz

Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary. You may argue against it but you should no more treat it with disrespect than a perfectly cultivated writer would treat (say) the Catholic Church or the Church of Luther no matter how much he disliked them.

William Butler Yeats

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Louis Ginsberg

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow