My mother was all about unconditional love, and I don't think we give that to our patients a lot. At the end of the day, what they really need you to do is to look at them in the eye and say, 'I'm here for you. I'm going to make sure this works out.

China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

Dalai Lama

There's such a thin line between winning and losing.

John R. Tunis

Poets wish to profit or to please.

Horace

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

George Orwell

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.

Bertrand Russell

I stayed in a really old hotel last night. They sent me a wake-up letter.

Steven Wright

We are most alive when we're in love.

John Updike

Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.

Walter Lippmann

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

Benjamin Disraeli

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Martin Luther

Habit is a great deadener.

Samuel Beckett

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Laurence Sterne