Of all the gifts bestowed by nature on human beings, hearty laughter must be close to the top.

My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.

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.

Hope, purpose and determination are not merely mental states. They have electrochemical connections that affect the immune system.

The great challenge of the '90s... is to salvage and improve the UN and to develop it into an agency capable of meeting the wide range of serious problems that are inherent in a world that has become a single geographic unit.

The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling. People who fear the worst tend to invite it. Heads that are down can't scan the horizon for new openings. Bursts of energy do not spring from a spirit of defeat. Ultimately, helplessness leads to hopelessness.

Why are people more appalled at what they term an unnatural form of dying than by an unnatural form of living?