If news is not really news unless it is bad news, it may be difficult to claim we are an informed nation

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

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

Do you prefer that you be right or happy?

I have learned never to underestimate the capacity of the human mind and body to regenerate - even when prospects seem most wretched. The life force may be the least understood force on earth.

We will not have peace by afterthought.

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.