A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.Collection: Hope
I want my house open to sun and wind and the voice of the sea, like a Greek temple, and light, light, light everywhere!Collection: Home
What you keep for yourself, you lose. What you give away, you keep foreverCollection: Christmas
The soul needs more space than the body.Collection: Space
I was not a good doctor, my studies had been too rapid, my hospital training too short, but there is not the slightest doubt that I was a successful doctor. What is the secret of success? To inspire confidence. What is confidence? ... I do not know, I only know that it cannot be acquired by book reading, nor by the bedside of our patients. It is a magic gift granted by birth-right to one man and denied to another. The doctor who possesses this gift can almost raise the deadCollection: Book
A dog gladly admits the superiority of his master over himself, accepts his judgment as final, but, contrary to what dog-lovers believe, he does not consider himself as a slave. His submission is voluntary, and he expects his own small rights to be respected.Collection: Dog
A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself.Collection: Respect
Pasteur himself was absolutely fearless. Anxious to secure a sample of saliva straight from the jaws of a rabid dog, I once saw him with the glass tube held between his lips draw a few drops of the deadly saliva from the mouth of a rabid bull-dog, held on the table by two assistants, their hands protected by leather gloves.Collection: Dog
Christ - an anarchist who succeeded.Collection: God