There slowly grew up in me an unshakable conviction that we have no right to inflict suffering and death on another living creature, unless there is some unavoidable necessity for it.

Creative energy is the essence of all healing...We physicians do nothing, we only help and encourage the physician within.

No one may shut his eyes to think the pain, which is therefore not visible to him, is non-existent.

I do not know what your destiny may be, but I do know this, that not one of you will find the happiness that each of you is seeking until you have first sought and found a way in which to unselfishly serve others.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

Bach is thus a terminal point. Nothing comes from him; everything merely leads to him.