At a Dodger baseball game in Los Angeles, I asked Will Durant if he was ninety-four or ninety-five. "Ninety-four," he said. "You don't think I'd be doing anything as foolish as this if I were ninety-five, do you?"

For every low there is an equal but opposite high.

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

Laughter serves as a blocking agent. Like a bullet-proof vest, it may help protect you against the ravages of negative emotions that can assault you in disease.

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

A casual attitude toward human hurt and pain is the surest sign of educational failure.

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.