One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few and they are more beautiful if they are a few.

Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are spending most of our time in American health care fixing the mistakes that either we in the profession are causing or our patients are, without recognizing it, causing to themselves.

Mehmet Oz

No wise person should make known the loss of fortune, any malpractice in their house, his being cheated, or having been disgraced.

Hitopadesa

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Vincent Van Gogh

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

Ambrose Bierce

For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class, and the scope of opportunity offered to the poorest child to climb into that middle class.

John J. Sweeney

Ambition is not a vice of little people.

Michel de Montaigne

How the old mountains drip with sunset,And the brake of dun!How the hemlocks are tipped in tinselBy the wizard sun!How the old steeples hand the scarlet,Till the ball is full, --Have I the lip of the flamingoThat I dare to tell?Then, how the fire ebbs like billows,Touching all the grassWith a departing, sapphire feature,As if a duchess pass!How a small dusk crawls on the villageTill the houses blot;And the odd flambeaux no men carryGlimmer on the spot!Now it is night in nest and kennel,And where was the wood,Just a dome of abyss is noddingInto solitude! --These are the visions baffled Guido;Titian never told;Domenichino dropped the pencil,Powerless to unfold.

Emily Dickinson, THE COMING OF N

When I warned them the French that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet, In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken. Some chicken! Some neck!

Sir Winston Churchill

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

Robert Anton Wilson

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

Andre Gide

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.

Anne Rice