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

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

Although a man may have no jurisdiction over the fact of his existence, he can hold supreme command over the meaning of existence for him.

What was significant about the laughter . . . was not just the fact that it provides internal exercise for a person . . . form of jogging for the innards, but that it creates a mood in which the other positive emotions can be put to work, too.

Education tends to be diagrammatic and categorical, opening up no sluices in the human imagination on the wonder of the beauty of our unique estate in the cosmos. Little wonder that it becomes so easy for our young to regard human hurt casually or to be uninspired by the magic of sensitivity.

Of all the gifts bestowed by nature on human beings, hearty laughter must be close to the top.

A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.