Never since the dawn of human history, as far as I can find out, did people long settled in any region give a friendly welcome to newcomers. One of the disagreeable traits of our human nature seems to be to dislike on sight people who come later than the first settlers.

You think religion is what's inside a little building filled with pretty lights from stained glass windows. But it's not. It's wings! Wings!

There is no human relationship more intimate than that of nurse and patient, one in which the essentials of character are more rawly revealed.

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

the encounter with death is the great turning-point in the lives of those who live on.

Taking somebody's sacrifices is like taking counterfeit money. You're only the poorer.

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.