The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather than the use of force.

Pain is part of the body's magic. It is the way the body transmits a sign to the brain that something is wrong.

More and more, the choice for the world's people is between becoming world warriors or world citizens.

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.

Laughter is a powerful way to tap positive emotions

Reverence for life is more than solicitude or sensitivity for life. It is a sense of the whole, a capacity for inspired response, a respect for the intricate universe of individual life. It is the supreme awareness of awareness itself.

I've learned that next to the atomic bomb, the greatest danger is defeatism, despair, and inadequate awareness of what human beings possess. I feel that any problem that can be defined is capable of being resolved. Out of this has come my conviction that no person knows enough to be a pessimist.