If you want to keep alive in the jungle, you must live as the jungle does.

The clock is the most sacred thing in a hospital.

Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power.

We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall -- but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a youthful folly anything that has happened to be a financial success.

To deprive a gregarious creature of companionship is to maim it, to outrage its nature. The prisoner and the cenobite are aware that the herd exists beyond their exile; they are an aspect of it. But when the herd no longer exists, there is, for the herd creature, no longer entity, a part of no whole; a freak without a place. If he cannot hold on to his reason, then he is lost indeed; most utterly, most fearfully lost, so that he becomes no more than the twitch in the limb of a corpse.

Children have a different convention of the fearful until they have been taught the proper things to be shocked at.

The essential quality of life is living' the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution; and we are part of it.