As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.

Almost no germ is unconditionally dangerous to man; its disease-producing ability depends upon the body's resistance.

Complete freedom from stress is death

Stress, in addition to being itself, was also the cause of itself, and the result of itself.

Mental tensions, frustrations, insecurity, aimlessness are among the most damaging stressors, and psychosomatic studies have shown how often they cause migraine headache, peptic ulcers, heart attacks, hypertension, mental disease, suicide, or just hopeless unhappiness.

To be totally without stress is to be dead.

I doubt that Fleming could have obtained a grant for the discovery of penicillin on that basis [a requirement for highly detailed research plans] because he could not have said, 'I propose to have an accident in a culture so that it will be spoiled by a mould falling on it, and I propose to recognize the possibility of extracting an antibiotic from this mould.'