The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one's one devotion to the bound book is expressed in ritual. A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.

Nothing is more essential in the treatment of serious disease than the liberation of the patient from panic and foreboding.

Each patient carries his own doctor inside him.

Assume responsibility for the quality of your own life

Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.

Laughter may or may not activate the endorphins or enhance respiration, as some medical researchers contend. What seems clear, however, is that laughter is an antidote to apprehension and panic.