The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.

We will not have peace by afterthought.

History is a vast early warning system.

What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.

It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.

What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

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.

It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.

He who keeps his cool best wins.

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.

Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.