“Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.”
"A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like the surgeon, a craftsman, or, like the physician and the psychologist, an artist. This means that in order to be a good doctor a man must also have a good character, that is to say, whatever weaknesses and foibles he may have, he must love his fellow human beings in the concrete and desire their good before his own."
- W. H. Auden
Compassion
"The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living."
- W. H. Auden
Connection to Earth
"Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he’ll escape."
- W. H. Auden
Aspirations
"We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know."
- W. H. Auden
Philosophy
"Music is the best means we have of digesting time."
- W. H. Auden
Philosophy
"We cannot control who we fall in love with, but we can choose how we treat them."
- Beauty and the Beast
Relationships
"I think it takes a strong man to be in a relationship with a strong woman. A lot of people hear the word ‘diva’ and think of it as a negative. I see it as a positive. I want somebody who knows what they want out of life and isn’t afraid to show it."
- Nick Cannon
Relationships
"It’s not what’s under the tree that matters, it’s who’s gathered around it."
Relationships
"As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December’s bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same."
- Donald E. Westlake
Relationships
"A man who correctly guesses a woman’s age may be smart, but he’s not very bright."
- Lucille Ball
Relationships