"There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions."

"Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes"

"In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of effort is the measure of the results."

"Success is measured on how high you bounce once you've hit rock bottom."

"It is better to be a beggar than ignorant; for a beggar only wants money, but an ignorant person wants humanity."

"Animals are always loyal and love you, whereas with children you never know where you are."

"Science is nothing but perception."

"What I spent, is gone; what I kept, I lost; but what I gave away will be mine forever."

"Just as big cities can deplete you with their noise and crowds and sheer sensory overload, a hospital can exhaust you, as its changing faces and personalities blur and strangers wake you repeatedly."

"Heroes are often the most ordinary of men."

"A man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a sheet of paper."

"Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections."