The justification for those actions was that we were living in a very hard, predatory, cloak-and-dagger world and that the only way to deal with a totalitarian enemy was to intimidate him. The trouble with this theory was that while we live in a world of plot and counterplot, we also live in a world of cause and effect. Whatever the cause for the decision to legitimize and regularize deceit abroad, the inevitable effect was the practice of deceit at home.

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

The possibility of war increases in direct proportion to the effectiveness of the instruments of war.

It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.

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.

The physician knows that his little black bag can carry him only so far and that the body's own healing system is the main resource.

The marvelous pharmacy that was designed by nature and placed into our being by the universal architect produces most of the medicines we need.