The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.

One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.

Girls marry for love. Boys marry because of a chronic irritation that causes them to gravitate in the direction of objects with certain curvilinear properties.

Psychosclerosis: the hardening of the attitude which causes a person to cease dreaming, seeing, thinking, and leading.

All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all living things whatsoever.

It's by what you do that you communicate to others that you are deeply involved in their well being.

The benefits to the mother of immediate breastfeeding are innumerable, not the least of which after the weariness of labor and birth is the emotional gratification, the feeling of strength, the composure, and the sense of fulfillment that comes with the handling and suckling of the baby.