Those who will not reason, perish in the act. Those who will not act, perish for that reason.

A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like the surgeon, a craftsman, or, like the physician and the psychologist, an artist. This means that in order to be a good doctor a man must also have a good character, that is to say, whatever weaknesses and foibles he may have, he must love his fellow human beings in the concrete and desire their good before his own.

The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.

Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.

One of the troubles of our times is that we are all, I think, precocious as personalities and backward as characters.

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.