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

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

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.

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.

History is written by the winners.

You are not walking slow enough, when taking a walk, if you do not come across as bored or depressed (to the average sane person).

Opportunities loiter in every corner. Everyone may see them, but it’s only great leaders that stop by to give them lifts!

He who at night feeling tired because of working in the daytime, then at night he was forgiven of Allah" —

I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the necessity of an inquest, and also let my friends know the motive that led me to take my own life.

Demands that you believe the impossible do not lead to peaceful outcomes.

A special skill, like speaking several languages, or keeping your mouth shut in one.

as long as there is a lottery, we the people of the United States must believe in getting something for nothing.

I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining.

Rare are the people who can capture a human being.