The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.

The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose.

Cynicism is intellectual treason.

My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

The one thing I have learned about editing over the years is that you have to edit and publish out of your own tastes, enthusiasms, and concerns, and not out of notions or guesswork about what other people might like to read.