I wish we could do something useful with tobacco - like making fertilizer out of it.

We know from our clinical experience in the practice of medicine that in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, the individual and his background of heredity are just as important, if not more so, as the disease itself.

I wish we could do something useful with tobacco - like making fertilizer out of it.

A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.

A vigorous five mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.

It is not possible to spend on one thing and then not have consequences on something else.

Let's take care of mothers and infants first, and then let's see what's left over for everybody over 50. I'm over 50. If I get sick, I would rather have money spent on children before it's spent on me.

You could play the blues like it was a lonesome thing - it was a feeling.

Is that what I've become, a piece of meat?

Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

I like meat on my bones.

Civility is not simply about manners.

The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.

A political race today, even a primary, is $150 million. The whole political system has become obscene in terms of the absurd amount of money that is required to compete. Just put it on ESPN and call it a sporting event.

Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience.

My parents were very well read. They were both New Englanders, not highly educated, but they had a sophisticated... they were both very humanistic, and they were sophisticated readers.

I don't mind giving 5,000 pardons a day.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places.

We tend to lack humility toward love, to patronize it rather than bow before it, to put mundane considerations before the emotional need to hold someone in our arms.

Walls are made of fear; bridges are made of love!

When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.

When you come right down to it, I guess I really am pretty bland.

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.

Films are a very personal experience - just like a martini - so I try to think about what I like, what projects I like to be in, and make sure I feel proud about it because, at the end, I'm the only one that's going to look back and feel proud or not about what I was doing.

I need to be working with the art world in N.Y.C. as much as I need to be working in my studios in Chicago and rural Wisconsin.

By relying on the statistical information rather than a gut feeling, you allow the data to lead you to be in the right place at the right time. To remain as emotionally free from the hurly burley of the here and now is one of the only ways to succeed.

Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It's important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It's the way in which we ourselves grow and develop.

My father, unusually for a PoW, talked about his experiences, but he talked about them in a very limited way.