"And mad ambition trumpeteth to all."

-- Nathaniel Parker Willis

#Ambition Quotes #Mad Quotes

“It seems to me that when confronted with the marvels of life and the universe, one must ask why and not just how. The only possible answers are religious. . . . I find a need for God in the universe and in my own life.”
“No person knows your body better than you. The world's most sophisticated and sensitive diagnostic apparatus is your own body's feelings.”

Source : "Helping People Doctor Themselves". Interview with Richard A. Passwater, wholefoodsmagazine.com. January 18, 2013.
“I would be happy living on a massive ranch in Montana and not seeing anyone except my friends and family.”
“Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves”
“Politeness. Now there's a poor man's virtue if ever there was one. What's so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like to know. After all, it's easily achieved. One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else. People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think about them.”
“I am the emperor of Germany, but you are the emperor of chefs.”
“People think that I don't work, and I fly around in Oprah's private plane doing whatever I want.”
“And in bed, deep inside the building, are all the headaches that won't go away. The failed kidneys, the rashes, the ragged-edged moles, the lumps on the breast, the coughs that have turned nasty. In the Marie Curie Ward on the fourth floor are the kids with cancer. Their bodies secretly and slowly being consumed. And then there's the mortuary, where the dead lie in refrigerated drawers with name tags on their feet.”

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