The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources-spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical.
Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.
If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it.
Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.
It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.
A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.
The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope.
A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.
Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.
Don’t defy the diagnosis, try to defy the verdict.
An adequate share of humor and laughter represents an essential part of the diet of the healthy person.
The message from the moon which we have flashed to the far corners of this planet is that no problem need any longer be considered insoluble.
Nature has not been lavish in her endowments, but each person has his or her own potential in terms of achievement and service. The awareness of that potential is the discovery of purpose; the fulfillment of that potential is the discovery of strength.
A casual attitude toward human hurt and pain is the surest sign of educational failure.
Integration is a basic law of life; when we resist it, disintegration is the natural result, both inside and outside of us. Thus we come to the concept of harmony through integration.
The one thing I have learned about editing over the years is that you have to edit and publish out of your own tastes, enthusiasms, and concerns, and not out of notions or guesswork about what other people might like to read.
The need is to recognize that The patient is the healer, Not the doctor.