Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
The quality of life is more important than life itself.
Prayer is the force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men, after all other therapy had failed, lifted out of disease and melancholy by the serene effort of prayer. Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strength.
A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
Prayer is the most powerful form of energy one can generate....It supplies us with a flow of sustaining power in our daily lives.
Those who don't learn to fight worry, die young.
If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered. Prayer stamps with its indelible mark our actions and demeanor. A tranquillity of bearing, a facial and bodily repose, are observed in those whose inner lives are thus enriched. Within the depths of consciousness a flame kindles. And man sees himself. He discovers his selfishness, his silly pride, his fears, his greeds, his blunders. He develops a sense of moral obligation, intellectual humility. Thus begins a journey of the soul toward the realm of grace.
The secret of life is to be found in life itself, in the full organic, intellectual and spiritual activities of our body.
Men grow when inspired by a high purpose, when contemplating vast horizons. The sacrifice of oneself is not very difficult for one burning with the passion for a great adventure.
The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained.
If the doctor of today does not become the dietician of tomorrow, the dietician of today will become the doctor of tomorrow.
It is faith, and not reason, which impels men to action... Intelligence is content to point out the road, but never drives us along it.
The cell is immortal. It is merely the fluid in which it floats that degenerates. Renew this fluid at regular intervals, give the cells what they require for nutrition, and as far as we know, the pulsation of life can go on forever.
Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.
Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.
The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog.
In joy or sorrow, health or sickness, prosperity or the reverse, the effort must still continue. One must rise after every fall and gradually acquire courage, faith, the will to succeed and the capacity to love.
Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.
Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.
Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia.
Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for apprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.
All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
Prayer is a force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men lifted out of sickness by the power of prayer. It is the only power in the world that overcomes the laws of nature.
Intelligence is almost useless to the person whose only quality it is.
All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.
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