Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
Courage is a kind of salvation.
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.
Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.
Old age is by nature rather talkative.
He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
Life is made up of marble and mud.
The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
The future is the shape of things to come.
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
The 'good old times'-all times, when old, are good.
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.
Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.
Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.