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

I have learned never to underestimate the capacity of the human mind and body to regenerate - even when prospects seem most wretched. The life force may be the least understood force on earth.

The most costly disease is boredom costly for both individual and society.

The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one's one devotion to the bound book is expressed in ritual. A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.

For every low there is an equal but opposite high.

Pain is part of the body's magic. It is the way the body transmits a sign to the brain that something is wrong.

All things are possible, once enough human beings realize that everything is at stake.