I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

Only he who accepts clashes and conflicts in life, loves life.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes

Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.

Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield.

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

History is the devil's scripture.

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

All of us are products of our childhood.