Never deny a diagnosis, but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it.

The need is not to amputate the ego ... but to transcend it.

What was significant about the laughter . . . was not just the fact that it provides internal exercise for a person . . . form of jogging for the innards, but that it creates a mood in which the other positive emotions can be put to work, too.

Death is not the enemy; living in constant fear of it is.

If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it.

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.