The family is the basis of society. As the family is, so is the society, and it is human beings who make a family-not the quantity of them, but the quality of them.
The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.
The only measure of what you believe is what you do. If you want to know what people believe don’t read what they write don’t ask them what they believe just observe what they do.
In Victorian times the purpose of life was to develop a personality once and for all and then stand on it.
Today while the titular head of the family may still be the father everyone knows that he is little more than chairman at most of the entertainment committee.
The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.
The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
One goes through school, college, medical school and one’s internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.
There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring.