For every low there is an equal but opposite high..

We have everything we need, in fact, except the most important thing of all — time to think and the habit of thought..

The essence of man is imperfection..

We are becoming a nation of sissies and hypochondriacs, a self medicating society easily intimidated by pain and prone to panic. We understand almost….

The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling. People who fear the worst tend to invite it. Heads that are down can't scan the horizon ….

Laughter serves as a blocking agent. Like a bullet-proof vest, it may help protect you against the ravages of negative emotions that can assault you ….

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood..

Death is not the enemy; living in constant fear of it is..

No one has been able to define or synthesize that precarious, splendid, and perhaps untidy instant when the creative process begins. This is what the….

If news is not really news unless it is bad news, it may be difficult to claim we are an informed nation.

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?.

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt o….

On the quality of life: #1. Realize that each human being has a built-in capacity for recuperation and repair. #2. Recognize that the quality of life….

Intelligence and the spirit of adventure can be combined to create new energies, and out of these energies may come exciting and rewarding new prospe….

The most costly disease is boredom costly for both individual and society..

More and more, the choice for the world's people is between becoming world warriors or world citizens..

It is no longer correct to regard higher education solely as a privilege. It is a basic right in today's world..

To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species. The essence of man is imperfection. Imperfection and blaz….

The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate is a gain..

All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body..

The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts in….