(On leaving money to found a psychiatric hospital in Dublin) No nation needs it so much.

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.

There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.

I have always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

People have said, 'You've turned your back on pediatrics.' I said, 'No. It took me until I was in my 60s to realize that politics was a part of pediatrics.'

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.

No small misery is caused by overworked and unhappy people, in the dark views which they necessarily take up themselves, and force upon others, of work itself.