"Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them."

"The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible."

"Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite."

"One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is the assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind."

"You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure."

"A love of nature is a consolation against failure."

"Indecision and delays are the parents of failure."

"But you say, does it represent change? The change is that we are fighting an insurance industry that has killed health reform for generations. They're spending tens of millions of dollars right now to defeat this bill, and we're on the doorstep of winning a great victory for the American people."