Don't defy the diagnosis try to defy the verdict.
The most costly disease is not cancer or coronaries. The most costly disease is boredom - costly for both individual and society.
History is a vast early warning system.
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 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.
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.
We will not have peace by afterthought.
A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
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.
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
The possibility of war increases in direct proportion to the effectiveness of the instruments of war.
The essence of man is imperfection.
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.
Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.
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...
War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace.
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.
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.