To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species.

Of all the gifts bestowed by nature on human beings, hearty laughter must be close to the top.

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

The growth of the human mind is still high adventure, in many ways the highest adventure on earth.

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

The possibility of war increases in direct proportion to the effectiveness of the instruments of war.

More and more, the choice for the world's people is between becoming world warriors or world citizens.

An adequate share of humor and laughter represents an essential part of the diet of the healthy person.

If news is not really news unless it is bad news, it may be difficult to claim we are an informed nation

A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.

In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.

Why are people more appalled at what they term an unnatural form of dying than by an unnatural form of living?

The physician's ability to reassure the patient is a major factor in activating the body's own healing system.

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

Pain is part of the body's magic. It is the way the body transmits a sign to the brain that something is wrong.

It is no longer correct to regard higher education solely as a privilege. It is a basic right in today's world.

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

If there is a conflict between the easy drift of prosperity and the ordeal of peace, the ordeal of peace comes first.

We have everything we need, in fact, except the most important thing of all — time to think and the habit of thought.

Ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep.

The conquest of war and the pursuit of social justice... must become our grand preoccupation and magnificent obsession.

The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose.

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.

Nothing is more essential in the treatment of serious disease than the liberation of the patient from panic and foreboding.

Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out their conscience, thus helping bring the collective conscience to life.

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

Hope, purpose and determination are not merely mental states. They have electrochemical connections that affect the immune system.

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.

The physician knows that his little black bag can carry him only so far and that the body's own healing system is the main resource.

The old emphasis upon superficial differences that separate peoples must give way to education for citizenship in the human community.

Although a man may have no jurisdiction over the fact of his existence, he can hold supreme command over the meaning of existence for him.

It is well known that panic, despair, depression, hate, rage, exasperation, frustration all produce negative biochemical changes in the body.

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.

The real wealth, not only of America, but of the world, is in the resources of the ground we stand on, and in the resources of the humankind.

The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather than the use of force.

Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations.

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.

The marvelous pharmacy that was designed by nature and placed into our being by the universal architect produces most of the medicines we need.

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.

Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

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 poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate is a gain.

Unobstructed access to facts can produce unlimited good only if it is matched by the desire and ability to find out what they mean and where they lead.

A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.

The heart of the matter is that some people like to cause injury or death to living things. And many of those who do not are indifferent to those who do.

Intelligence and the spirit of adventure can be combined to create new energies, and out of these energies may come exciting and rewarding new prospects.

The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources-spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical.

What a man really says when he says that someone else can be persuaded by force, is that he himself is incapable of more rational means of communication.

We have learned to live in a world of mistakes and defective products as if they were necessary to life. It is time to adopt a new philosophy in America.

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