Governments are not built to perceive large truths. Only people can perceive great truths. Governments specialize in small and intermediate truths. They have to be instructed by their people in great truths.

Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.

I cannot affirm God if I fail to affirm man. Therefore, I affirm both. Without a belief in human unity I am hungry and incomplete. Human unity is the fulfillment of diversity. It is the harmony of opposites. It is a many-stranded texture, with color and depth.

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

An adequate share of humor and laughter represents an essential part of the diet of the healthy person.

The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.

Laughter is a powerful way to tap positive emotions