Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.
He who keeps his cool best wins.
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
The way a book is read- which is to say,the qualities a reader brings to a book- can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.
Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.
The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.
The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescriptio...
People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time.
Not every illness can be overcome. But many people allow illness to disfigure their lives more than it should. They cave in needlessly. They ignore and weaken whatever powers they have for standing er...
It is nonsense to say there is not enough time to be fully informed. ... Time given to thought is the greatest timesaver of all.
Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
The most costly disease is not cancer or coronaries. The most costly disease is boredom - costly for both individual and society.
The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.
Death is not the enemy living in constant fear of it is.
It has always seemed to me that hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.
Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.
My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.
It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.
The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of ot...
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