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

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.

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

All men - whether they go by the name of Americans or Russians or Chinese or British or Malayans or Indians or Africans - have obligations to one another that transcend their obligations to their sovereign societies.

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

In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.

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.