I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said compared to who?

I would point out that Japan's proposal at the Versailles Peace Conference on the principle of racial equality was rejected by delegates such as those from Britain and the United States.

Hideki Tojo

Unity and simplicity are the two true sources of beauty.

Johann Joachim Winckelmann

The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.

Thomas Sydenham

The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.

Ezra Pound

Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.

Forest Whitaker

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Money is like an arm or leg -- use it or lose it.

Henry Ford

I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others it's for others to use.

Leonard Cohen

I really believe that what happens one day affects the next, and I think that came from that experience of learning that if I told the score inning by inning, play by play, it built up to its natural climax.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Joyce Cary