What people most need now is to apply their conversion skills to those things that are essential for their survival. They need to convert facts into logic, free will into purpose, conscience into decision. They need to convert historical experience into a design for a sane world.

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.

The possibility of war increases in direct proportion to the effectiveness of the instruments of war.

The real wealth, not only of America, but of the world, is in the resources of the ground we stand on, and in the resources of the humankind.

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

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

The physician knows that his little black bag can carry him only so far and that the body's own healing system is the main resource.