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.

The American people are beginning to think in new ways about health and illness . . . Bernie Siegel is helping to define and open up these new frontiers. In this sense he is in the best medical tradition.

We have learned to live in a world of mistakes and defective products as if they were necessary to life. It is time to adopt a new philosophy in America.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

Laughter is inner jogging.

Pessimism is a waste of time.

Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.