"We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession."

"The fickleness of the women whom I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me."

"He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career."

"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches."

"There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it."

"A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care."

"All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit."

"Ability is of little account without opportunity."

"You have to find a way of working that makes it dead easy to take full advantage of your inspired moments. They never hit at a convenient time, nor do they last long."

"For life be, after all, only a waitin' for somethin' else than what we're doin'; and death be all that we can rightly depend on."

"Brilliance is typically the act of an individual, but incredible stupidity can usually be traced to an organization."

"Sigmund Freud once said, 'What do women want?' The only thing I have learned in fifty-two years is that women want men to stop asking dumb questions like that."