... men as a rule are more preoccupied with the dangers that threaten their life than interested in the biological forces on which they depend for a constructive existence.

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.

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.

It hurt when someone lies to you, and you know that. But you believe him instead because you love him.

The worst thing about movie-making is that it's like life: nobody can go back to correct the mistakes.

Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him.

It doesn't matter how greatly you've been hurt or how much you're hurting, it's what you do with the pain that counts. You could cry for years or you could choose to learn and grow from it.

From a little spark may burst a flame.

It's in the democratic citizen's nature to be like a leaf that doesn't believe in the tree it's part of.

Whoever doesn't live in poetry cannot survive here on earth.

I see many more men who are feminist, or at least who have learned about life in the context of feminism.

From kings to cobblers 'tis the same; Bad servants wound their masters' fame.

Opportunities do not float like clouds in the sky. They're attached to people. If you're looking for an opportunity, you're really looking for a person.