All good American literature is always interested in people who are ambiguously heroic, like Gatsby.
It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.
Don't believe in miracles - depend on them.
Only mediocrities rise to the top in a system that won't tolerate wave making.
Fools rush in where wise men fear to trade.
The modern child will answer you back before you've said anything.
Many an optimist has become rich simply by buying out a pessimist.
Whatever women do in life, they must do it twice as good as men in order to be considered as half as qualified. Fortunately, that's not very difficult.
In this business, if you don't pay your debts you're finished.
We look at science as the ultimate answer for everything yet we are really messy organisms and when the two collide in the upper echelons of medicine you think science will prevail but it's not always that way.
You know that if you lie to yourself, surely other people lie to themselves. And if they lie to themselves, they will lie to you also.