"Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction--faith in fiction is a damnable false hope."

"Remember, nothing that's good works by itself, just to please you. You have to make the damn thing work."

"Hell, there are no rules here-- we're trying to accomplish something."

"The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease."

"Many of life's failures are those who didn't know how close they were to success when they gave up."

"All Bibles are man-made."

"I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves."

"Wherever you come near the human race there's layers and layers of nonsense."

"I do not believe the Union will disolve, I believe it will become all one thing, or all the other."

"The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting."

"Sex is the biggest nothing of all time."

"We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it."