"Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible."

"When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time."

"Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected."

"Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it."

"You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!"

"People relate to things that feel real to them. All the good, happy, over-sexed and moneyed endings on TV are not the way most of us feel in our lives. The success of 'E.R.,' I think, is not relying on overly sentimental stories that are solved where people's lives wrap up nicely with happy endings."

"I couldn't think of anything else I'd rather be doing."

"The willingness to keep learning is, I think, the most important thing about trying to be good at anything. You never want to stop learning."