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

All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.

At a Dodger baseball game in Los Angeles, I asked Will Durant if he was ninety-four or ninety-five. "Ninety-four," he said. "You don't think I'd be doing anything as foolish as this if I were ninety-five, do you?"

It is well known that panic, despair, depression, hate, rage, exasperation, frustration all produce negative biochemical changes in the body.

Death is not the enemy; living in constant fear of it is.

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.

Laughter is a powerful way to tap positive emotions