The physician knows that his little black bag can carry him only so far and that the body's own healing system is the main resource.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations.

Laughter is inner jogging.

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

Simple minded people do things like gossip, lie, spread rumors, and cause troubles. But, I know you're more intelligent.

It is not the dream of what you're feeling laziness, if not, the sleep of exhaustion.

In a life that does not last forever create something that will last forever.

This city is dying of rabies. Is the best I can do to wipe random flecks of foam from its lips?

When it's first and a mile, I won't give it to him.

Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence.

Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common.

our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home.

How these curiosities would be quite forgott, did not such idle fellowes as I am putt them downe!