It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.

Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.

To ward off disease or recover health, people as a rule find it easier to depend on healers than to attempt the more difficult task of living wisely.

Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back.

The very process of living is a continual interplay between the individual and his environment, often taking the form of a struggle resulting in injury or disease.

Sometimes the more measurable drives out the most important.

Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself.

There is an unbroken continuum from the wisdom of the body to the wisdom of the mind, from the wisdom of the individual to the wisdom of the race.

The word "wilderness" occurs approximately three hundred times in the Bible, and all its meanings are derogatory.

What happens in the mind of man is always reflected in the disease of his body.

Man could escape danger only by renouncing adventure, by abandoning that which has given to the human condition its unique character and genius among the rest of living things.

Democracy's fatal flaw: There are more dumb people than smart people. Welcome to the new Dark Ages!

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

I give you bitter pills in sugar coating. The pills are harmless: the poison is in the sugar.

In the long run, it is far more dangerous to adhere to illusion than to face what the actual fact is.

I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.

It's more of a strength model to say that [Vladimir] Putin will do what it takes to defend his country. But that's why Putin is dangerous and Russia is a major cause of concern for us .

The French aren't perfect, but they have some parenting secrets that really do work.

I think the camera is a wonderful machine, don't you? And not to take photographs in this century is crazy.

It was not a life, if lived without love.