You are younger today than you will ever be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow.

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

The possibility of war increases in direct proportion to the effectiveness of the instruments of war.

Intelligence and the spirit of adventure can be combined to create new energies, and out of these energies may come exciting and rewarding new prospects.

The justification for those actions was that we were living in a very hard, predatory, cloak-and-dagger world and that the only way to deal with a totalitarian enemy was to intimidate him. The trouble with this theory was that while we live in a world of plot and counterplot, we also live in a world of cause and effect. Whatever the cause for the decision to legitimize and regularize deceit abroad, the inevitable effect was the practice of deceit at home.

If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it.

The physician knows that his little black bag can carry him only so far and that the body's own healing system is the main resource.