People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

No one has been able to define or synthesize that precarious, splendid, and perhaps untidy instant when the creative process begins. This is what the uniqueness of the artist is all about. The transcendent right of the artist is the right to create even though he may not always know what he is doing.

The physician's ability to reassure the patient is a major factor in activating the body's own healing system.

Why are people more appalled at what they term an unnatural form of dying than by an unnatural form of living?

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.

He who keeps his cool best wins.

All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.