...in recognition of his work on vascular suture and the transplantation of blood-vessels and organs.

Prayer is the force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men, after all other therapy had failed, lifted out of disease and melancholy by the serene effort of prayer. Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strength.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

When we pray we link ourselves with an inexhaustible motive power.

The search for God is indeed, an entirely personal undertaking.... the most audacious adventure that one can dare.

Prayer, the basic exercise of the spirit, must be actively practiced in our private lives. The neglected soul of the human being must be made strong enough to assert itself once more. For if the power of prayer is again released and used in the lives of common men and women; if the spirit declares its aims clearly and boldly, there is yet hope that our prayers for a better world will be answered.

Those who do not know how to fight worry die young.