An adequate share of humour and laughter represents an essential part of the diet of a healthy person.

Second, only to freedom, learning is the most precious option on earth.

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

He who keeps his cool best wins.

The growth of the human mind is still high adventure, in many ways the highest adventure on earth.

The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling.

A casual attitude toward human hurt and pain is the surest sign of educational failure.

The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope

Cynicism is intellectual treason.

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life.

Never deny a diagnosis, but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it.

The purpose of education is to enable us to develop to the fullest that which is inside us

Assume responsibility for the quality of your own life.

The starting point for a better world is the belief that it is possible.

Don't defy the diagnosis, try to defy the verdict.

Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.

Each patient carries his doctor inside him.