Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

Ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep.

The purpose of education is to enable us to develop to the fullest that which is inside us

The heart of the matter is that some people like to cause injury or death to living things. And many of those who do not are indifferent to those who do.

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.

Never deny a diagnosis, but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it.

Reverence for life is more than solicitude or sensitivity for life. It is a sense of the whole, a capacity for inspired response, a respect for the intricate universe of individual life. It is the supreme awareness of awareness itself.