Not only is example the best way to teach, it is the only way.

Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside.

The most difficult thing I have ever had to do is follow the guidance I prayed for.

Soldiers' graves are the greatest preachers of peace.

Thinking about death... produces love for life. When we are familiar with death, we accept each week, each day, as a gift. Only if we are able thus to accept life bit by bit does it become precious.

The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.

But merely accepting authoritarian truth, even if that truth has some virtue, does not bring skepticism to an end. To blindly accept a truth one has never reflected upon retards the advance of reason. Our world rots in deceit. . . . Just as a tree bears the same fruit year after year and at the same time fruit that is new each year, so must all permanently valuable ideas be continually created anew in thought. But our age pretends to make a sterile tree bear fruit by tying fruits of truth onto its branches.