For aging is an art. The years between its first intimations and the time of the ultimate letting go of all earthly things can-if the readiness and resolve are there-be the real harvest of our lives.

To become comfortable with uncertainty is one of the primary goals in the training of a physician.

I have not often seen much dignity in the process by which we die.

There is, to be sure, sometimes only a small difference between being alert to possible danger and allowing oneself to become terrified to the point of paralysis by seeming or imagined portents.

Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction.

If we cannot heal in one way, we must learn to heal in another.

The dignity we seek in dying is not to be found in our final weeks, days or moments but in the way we live and how we are seen by those people whose lives we affect.

The life sciences contain spiritual values which can never be explained by the materialistic attitude of present day science

Death is the surcease that comes when the exhausting battle has been lost.

Moths and flames, mankind and death--there is little difference.

In the community of living tissues, the uncontrolled mob of misfits that is cancer behaves like a gang of perpetually wilding adolescents. They are the juvenile delinquents of cellular society.

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

...stories that rise from deep suffering can provide the most potent remedies for past, present, and even future ills.

How do we attack important problems? Pose the right question.

Normally I don't listen to my songs. I hear when I'm in the process of creation, of course, but not when I come home, for example, and I listen my album, and this is different.

On first blush this looks to be about money, but it is about power. Is power going to go to the information monopolies, or will it go to developers and users?.

We live in a description of reality.

To believe a business impossible is the way to make it so. How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.

Nothing is more destructive of individual character than for a man to lose all faith in his own abilities for the prosecution of his work.

Man must make his choice between ease and wealth; either may be his, but not both.

The Congress is a power-oriented party.