Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.

Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty.

Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.

If you look at American medical fiction written by doctors, like 'The House of God' by Samuel Shem and 'The Blood of Strangers' by Frank Huyler, both have themes of cynicism and dysfunction running through them that you won't find in 'ER.' You find it in 'Scrubs,' but because that's a comedy, it gets away with it.

If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.