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.

If there is a conflict between the easy drift of prosperity and the ordeal of peace, the ordeal of peace comes first.

It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.

Laughter serves as a blocking agent. Like a bullet-proof vest, it may help protect you against the ravages of negative emotions that can assault you in disease.

Fortunately or otherwise we live at a time when the average individual has to know several times as much in order to keep informed as he did only thirty or forty years ago. Being "educated" today requires not only more than a superficial knowledge of the arts and sciences, but a sense of inter-relationship such as is taught in few schools. Finally, being "educated" today, in terms of the larger needs, means preparation for world citizenship; in short, education for survival.

Death is not the greatest tragedy in life. The greatest tragedy is what dies inside us while we live. We need not fear death. We need fear only that we may exist without having sensed something of the possibilities that lie within human existence.

Laughter is a powerful way to tap positive emotions