Sometimes the more measurable drives out the most important.

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.

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

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

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.

Be the person you needed when you needed help.

Going up the mast is one of the most dangerous things you can do as a solo sailor.

No matter how successful you are, change is always good.

Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty — it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.

It is time to rekindle the spirit of the Renaissancee to achieve a golden age that will be a turning point for human productivity and quality of life.

If they lost the incredible conviction that they can change their wives or husbands, marriage would collapse at once.

Anne Romaine collected her own parallel archive to [Alex] Haley.

What makes an actor, I think, is a combination of a deep curiosity about life and a case of the crazies.

I hope that in some way that I can be some sort of beacon of hope, especially because I am not the typical Hollywood beauty.

That sort of effort has to come not only from the writer but also from a really innovative publisher like Quirk.