There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding

The next major advance in the health of the American people will be determined by what the individual is willing to do for himself.

the scornful force of his tone turned the word into a curse

Always say some prayers at night because it might turn out that there is a God.

Never say you are five feet nine when you are five feet eight and a half" was the first one I encountered. Another was, "Always say some prayers at night because it might turn out that there is a God.

It was hard to remember in the heavy and sensual clarity of these mornings; I forgot whom I hated and who hated me. I wanted to break out crying from stabs of hopeless joy, or intolerable promise, or because these mornings were too full of beauty for me, because I knew of too much hate to be contained in a world like this.

I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around me.