"The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about."

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a large fortune must be in want of a wife."

"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it."

"Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science."

"He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself."

"Music--the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge, which comprehends mankind, but which mankind cannot comprehend."

"Show me someone without an ego, and I'll show you a loser."

"It was just a job. It wasn't any special interest in consumer affairs. I needed a paycheck and the Attorney General said that I would be best to go down there, because he knew I was anti-consumer."

"Humor, you can't exist without it. You have to be able to laugh at yourself. Otherwise you suffer."

"One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind."