Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.

Culture makes pain tolerable by interpreting it's necessity; only pain perceived as curable is intolerable.

Carry a candle in the dark, be a candle in the dark, know that you're a flame in the dark.

To hell with the future. It's a man-eating idol.

It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special gift for this. Perhaps this explains why some missionaries, notwithstanding their efforts, never come to speak properly, to communicate delicately through silences. Although they "speak with the accent of natives" they remain forever thousands of miles away. The learning of the grammar of silence is an art much more difficult to learn than the grammar of sounds.

The true miracle of modern medicine is diabolical. It consists in making not only individuals but whole populations survive on inhumanly low levels of personal health.

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.