Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor
All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.
Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.
The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.
Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained.
The quality of life is more important than life itself.
Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.
Perhaps I will stay in Chicago and operate on human beings instead of on dogs. From a business standpoint, it would be excellent. But, as I hate medical practice, I would like better to make little mo...
The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.
Prayer is the force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men, after all other therapy had failed, lifted out of disease and melancholy by the serene effort of prayer. Only in pr...