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

The one thing I have learned about editing over the years is that you have to edit and publish out of your own tastes, enthusiasms, and concerns, and….

The greatest force in the human body is the natural drive of the body to heal itself - but that force in not independent of the belief system. Everyt….

Education fails unless the Three R's at one end of the school spectrum lead ultimately to the Four P's at the other-Preparati on for Earning, Prepara….

Education tends to be diagrammatic and categorical, opening up no sluices in the human imagination on the wonder of the beauty of our unique estate i….

At a Dodger baseball game in Los Angeles, I asked Will Durant if he was ninety-four or ninety-five. "Ninety-four," he said. "You don't think I'd be d….

The doctor knows that it is the prescription slip itself, even more than what is written on it, that is often the vital ingredient for enabling a pat….

The conquest of war and the pursuit of social justice... must become our grand preoccupation and magnificent obsession..

History is an accumulation of error..

All things are possible, once enough human beings realize that everything is at stake..

Reverence for life is more than solicitude or sensitivity for life. It is a sense of the whole, a capacity for inspired response, a respect for the i….

The physician's ability to reassure the patient is a major factor in activating the body's own healing system..

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 consequen….

Fortunately or otherwise we live at a time when the average individual has to know several times as much in order to keep informed as he did only thi….

What was significant about the laughter . . . was not just the fact that it provides internal exercise for a person . . . form of jogging for the inn….

Nothing is more essential in the treatment of serious disease than the liberation of the patient from panic and foreboding..

Unobstructed access to facts can produce unlimited good only if it is matched by the desire and ability to find out what they mean and where they lea….

Cynicism is intellectual treason..

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started..

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

Each patient carries his own doctor inside him..