Sickness may be the solemn occasion of God's intervention in a person's life.

What happens then is like what happens when we separate a jigsaw puzzle into its fuve hundred pieces: The over-all picture disappears. This is the state of modern medicine: It has lost the sense of the unity of man. Such is the price it has paid for its scientific progress. It has sacrificed art to science.

People are reluctant to talk about old age and death because they are afraid of emotion, and they willingly avoid the things they feel most emotional about, though these are the very things they most need to talk about.

The adventurous life is not one exempt from fear, but on the contrary, one that is lived in full knowledge of fears of all kinds, one in which we go forward in spite of our fears.

If there had been no fear of failure, neither would there be any joy in success.

At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance.

...the highest sign of friendship is that of giving another the privilege of sharing your inner thought.