The very process of living is a continual interplay between the individual and his environment, often taking the form of a struggle resulting in injury or disease.

Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.

To ward off disease or recover health, people as a rule find it easier to depend on healers than to attempt the more difficult task of living wisely.

Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back.

Sometimes the more measurable drives out the most important.

Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself.

It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.

There is an unbroken continuum from the wisdom of the body to the wisdom of the mind, from the wisdom of the individual to the wisdom of the race.

The word "wilderness" occurs approximately three hundred times in the Bible, and all its meanings are derogatory.

What happens in the mind of man is always reflected in the disease of his body.

Man could escape danger only by renouncing adventure, by abandoning that which has given to the human condition its unique character and genius among the rest of living things.

A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.

Annoyances are strangely not so annoying when the person responsible has endeared himself to you.

Come back here the day before yesterday, you noodle-legged weasel!

I've never made a movie to make money. I've never made a painting to make money.

Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love - you have a treasure within that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.

Well, I get under people's skins. It's a gift I have, what can I say?

So the better my partner or my opposition, however you like to think about it, the better my game.

Clearly, the Obama presidency hasn't wiped out racial prejudices.

A rogue is a roundabout fool.

People have been convinced that growth for growth's sake is a good thing.