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.

What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.

Words have to be crafted, not sprayed. They need to be fitted together with infinite care.

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

Why are people more appalled at what they term an unnatural form of dying than by an unnatural form of living?

The one thing I have learned about editing over the years is that you have to edit and publish out of your own tastes, enthusiasms, and concerns, and not out of notions or guesswork about what other people might like to read.

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.