"Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too."

"Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be."

"People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them."

"We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds."

"One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake."

"A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer. He is a man who has signed a contract with his conscious and his sense of duty."

"With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another."

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."

"Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

"They can conquer who believe they can."

"They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness."

"I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe."