No one really knows enough to be a pessimist.

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

We have learned to live in a world of mistakes and defective products as if they were necessary to life. It is time to adopt a new philosophy in America.

The need is to recognize that The patient is the healer, Not the doctor.

The doctor knows that it is the prescription slip itself, even more than what is written on it, that is often the vital ingredient for enabling a patient to get rid of whatever is ailing him.

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.

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