The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more.

Life alone can rekindle life.

Love is like swallowing hot chocolate before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh - over fear...Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage.

The ideal doctor would be a man endowed with profound knowledge of life and of the soul, intuitively divining any suffering or disorder of whatever kind, and restoring peace by his mere presence.

The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.