We are becoming a nation of sissies and hypochondriacs, a self medicating society easily intimidated by pain and prone to panic. We understand almost nothing about the essential robustness of the human body or its ability to meet the challenge of illness.

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.

If news is not really news unless it is bad news, it may be difficult to claim we are an informed nation

The essence of man is imperfection.

It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.

If there is a conflict between the easy drift of prosperity and the ordeal of peace, the ordeal of peace comes first.