Occupation: Journalist Birth: June 24, 1915 Death: November 30, 1990
The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life..
No one really knows enough to be a pessimist..
The growth of the human mind is still high adventure, in many ways the highest adventure on earth..
Never deny a diagnosis, but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it..
The justification for those actions was that we were living in a very hard, predatory, cloak-and-dagger world and that the only way to deal with a to….
What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth..
It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing..
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….
The most costly disease is boredom costly for both individual and society..
I have learned never to underestimate the capacity of the human mind and body to regenerate - even when prospects seem most wretched. The life force ….
Laughter is inner jogging..
The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that ma….
Silence must be comprehended as not solely the absence of sound. It is the natural environment for serenity and contemplation. Life without silence….
Laughter is a powerful way to tap positive emotions.
Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time..
The present mode of life on earth is madness, which is nontheless lethal for being legal. Rational existence is possible, but it calls for a world co….
My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason..
Hope, purpose and determination are not merely mental states. They have electrochemical connections that affect the immune system..
Since the human body tends to move in the direction of its expectations- plus or minus-it is important to know that attitudes of confidence and deter….