Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.

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.

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

Freedom of religion, as the Founding Fathers saw it, was not just the right to associate oneself with a certain denomination but the right to disassociate without penalty. Belief or nonbelief was a matter of individual choice - a right underwritten in the basic charter of the nation's liberties.

All men - whether they go by the name of Americans or Russians or Chinese or British or Malayans or Indians or Africans - have obligations to one another that transcend their obligations to their sovereign societies.

The need is not to amputate the ego ... but to transcend it.