Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of his conscience, thus helping to bring the collective conscience to life |
Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time. |
People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams. |
People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time |
Pessimism is a waste of time |
Pessimism operates in a narrowed field of vision that fails to take into account the possibilities at the outer edges of experience. |
Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man. |
Ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep |
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. |
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. |
The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness. |
The growth of the human mind is still high adventure, in many ways the highest adventure on earth. |
The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription. |
The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter. |
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny. |