My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.

I cannot affirm God if I fail to affirm man. Therefore, I affirm both. Without a belief in human unity I am hungry and incomplete. Human unity is the fulfillment of diversity. It is the harmony of opposites. It is a many-stranded texture, with color and depth.

A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.

Death is not the greatest tragedy in life. The greatest tragedy is what dies inside us while we live. We need not fear death. We need fear only that we may exist without having sensed something of the possibilities that lie within human existence.

The physician's ability to reassure the patient is a major factor in activating the body's own healing system.

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.

It is well known that panic, despair, depression, hate, rage, exasperation, frustration all produce negative biochemical changes in the body.