When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.

History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.

I am like a snake who has already begun to devour the victim and who, as he grows bigger, must devour more and more to satisfy his hunger.

Healing is not the absence of disease, but the presence of peace.

It AIN'T so much the things we don't know that get us into trouble. It's the things we know that just ain't so.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Into each life some rain must fall.