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"One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment."

"People who are sensible about love are incapable of it."

"It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake."

"I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs."

"Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful."

"What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?"

"There's a greater law than the FDA, and that is an obligation of a doctor to try to do anything he can to save a life when he thinks that there's a chance."

"The purpose of medicine is to prevent significant disease, to decrease pain and to postpone death... Technology has to support these goals-if not, it may even be counterproductive."

"Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual."

"Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can."

"Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them."

"Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine."

"You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with."

"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people."

"Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail."

"Only a few things are really important."

"When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course."

"Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money."

"There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job."

"The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer."

"Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed."

"Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done."

"The computer is a moron."

"To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever."

"You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love."

"When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell."

"Love is love's reward."

"I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see."

"Trust that little voice in your head that says "Wouldn't it be interesting if.."; And then do it."

"I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally."