If we cannot heal in one way, we must learn to heal in another.

There is, to be sure, sometimes only a small difference between being alert to possible danger and allowing oneself to become terrified to the point of paralysis by seeming or imagined portents.

Death is the surcease that comes when the exhausting battle has been lost.

The life sciences contain spiritual values which can never be explained by the materialistic attitude of present day science

Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction.

I have not often seen much dignity in the process by which we die.

The greatest dignity to be found in death is the dignity of the life that preceded it. This is a form of hope that we can all achieve, and it is the most abiding of all. Hope resides in the meaning of what our lives have been.