“The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.”

“It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.”

“I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.”

“Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.”

“People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.”

“It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.”

“Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.”

“He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down and without walls.”

“I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.”

“Everyone living is doomed”

“I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.”