Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.
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.
Don't defy the diagnosis try to defy the verdict.
The possibility of war increases in direct proportion to the effectiveness of the instruments of war.
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.
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...
It is nonsense to say there is not enough time to be fully informed. ... Time given to thought is the greatest timesaver of all.
A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
History is a vast early warning system.
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.
It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.
Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Since the human body tends to move in the direction of its expectations-plus or minus-it is important to know that attitudes of confidence and determination are no less a part of the treatment program...
The essence of man is imperfection.
Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.
A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says thinks or does is without consequences.
The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it withing his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.
We will not have peace by afterthought.