I'm confident - confident in my skin, and I'm cool with my flaws and all that stuff.

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.

Artur Schnabel

If the years have taught me one thing it's that those who care are always scarce. Those who genuinely care; not the acquaintances, false friends or those with similar aspirations. The few who seek your company, the souls who would plainly step off the world for you. Once you resolve to ignore them, only regret will follow.

Darrell Drake

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

Vladimir Nabokov

You do not need the bible to justify love, but no better tool has been invented to justify hate.

Richard A. Weatherwax

There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and changeable. A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration.

Abraham Lincoln

The biggest public health challenge is rebuilding health systems. In other words, if you look at cholera or maternal mortality or tuberculosis in Haiti, they're major problems in Haiti, but the biggest problem is rebuilding systems.

Paul Farmer

Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.

Margaret Sanger

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

George S. Patton

Hope is bulletproof, truth just hard to hit

Christopher Moore

These are weighty secrets, and we must whisper them.

Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, Secrets

The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it.

Will Foley

The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.

Ashley Montagu