"To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of all social virtues. We can no longer be useful when not well."

“Greed plays a role in causing unnecessary surgery, although I don't think the economic motive alone is enough to explain it. There's no doubt that if you eliminated all unnecessary surgery, most surgeons would go out of business. They'd have to look for honest work, because the surgeon gets paid when he performs surgery on you, not when you're treated some other way. In pre-paid group practices where surgeons are paid a steady salary not tied to how many operations they perform, hysterectomies and tonsillectomies occur only about one-third as often as in fee-for-service situations.”

“The trappings of a religious cult tend to fall into candlelit ceremonies and robes and group chanting and singing and prayer.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Ye may kill for yourselves, and your mates, and your cubs as they need, and ye can; But kill not for pleasure of killing, and seven times never kill Man!”

“Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.”

Source : "Celebrities Who Have NEVER Been Divorced" by Pat Gallagher, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 8, 2015.

“At Geneva, the neutral states were often in agreement concerning the preliminaries for Genoa, and Genoa itself was marked by a quite natural mutual exchange of ideas.”

“A lot of life is dealing with your curse, dealing with the cards you were given that aren't so nice. Does it make you into a monster, or can you temper it in some way, or accept it and go in some other direction?”

“A man rising in the world is not concerned with history; he is too busy making it. But a citizen with a fixed place in the community wants to acquire a glorious past just as he acquires antique furniture. By that past he is reassured of his present importance; in it he finds strength to face the dangers that lie in front of him.”

Source : MALCOLM COWLEY (1967). “Think Back on Us”

“People are always introducing me as Sarah Silverman, Jewish comedienne. I hate that! I wish people would see me for who I really am — I'm white!”

Source : "Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic". Documentary, Comedy, Music, 2005.