Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?
Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
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.
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen'
Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.
The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behaviour lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behaviour
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.
It is not the length of life, but the depth.
One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.
This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.
The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.