As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality.

The whole existence of man is a ceaseless duel between the forces of life and death.

Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence

Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

We labor under the fatal delusion that no disease can be cured without medicine. This has been responsible for more mischief to mankind than any other evil. ...Disease increases in proportion to the increase to the number of doctors in a place.