The marvelous pharmacy that was designed by nature and placed into our being by the universal architect produces most of the medicines we need.

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.

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.

A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

Belief creates biology.

Words have to be crafted, not sprayed. They need to be fitted together with infinite care.