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

Second only to freedom, learning is the most precious option on earth.

The starting point for a better world is the belief that it is possible.

Each patient carries his own doctor inside him.

Governments are not built to perceive large truths. Only people can perceive great truths. Governments specialize in small and intermediate truths. They have to be instructed by their people in great truths.

The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.

Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.