I was happy in the dream; but when I woke up it was with a feeling that I was falling apart, that I was cracking up from the inside and slowly falling to pieces. My heart was jumping and grating like a cold engine that doesn't want to start. My skin ...
The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Un...
[ ] A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame in recalling it would rather be a —a man of restless and versatile intellect—who … plunges into scientific questions ...
I pray for you, that all your misgivings will be melted to thanksgivings. Remember that the shadow a thing casts often far exceeds the size of the thing itself (especially if the light be low on the horizon) and though some future fear may strut brav...
'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
Well, maybe at home I don't have the best image.
I have learnt to be even more patient.
Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.
I said in my mind, 'keep fighting.'
People get so stressed and nervous and mad.
A man convinced against his will is not convinced.
One does not become fully human painlessly.
I always try to adjust to the situation.
Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
I have survived and possibly I should not hope for more than that.
My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
I feel really good in the teacher role.
The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
I have lived my whole life with high intensity.
Nuclear terrorism is possible - it may be probable - but is survivable.
