“Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.”

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor

I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

Perfect is the enemy of good.

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.

May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.

Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.

Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.

It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.

Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.

The challenge of the retail business is the human condition.

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity, fighting pain, death and loss and hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature.

My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.

A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it. Positive thinking is a form of thought which habitually looks for the best results from the worst conditions

The universe doesn’t conspire against you, but it doesn’t go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect.

I don’t feel one’s personal medical condition is everybody’s business. It just isn’t something you advertise, and it’s not open to discussion.

The first word Jesus used in His earthly ministry was repent. Repent means to change the way you’ve been conditioned to think, and I believe that is the only way we are going to see the impact of the original concepts and idea of God.