We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore, I must stop doing what I've been doing.
When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.
Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good. (attributed)
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
An error can never become true however many times you repeat it. The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it.
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.