“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.”

“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.”

“One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.”

“The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.”

“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 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.”

“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.”

“In Victorian times the purpose of life was to develop a personality once and for all and then stand on it.”

“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.”

“The indifference, callousness, and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering towards animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of human spirit.”

“Unfortunately, we-especially in the United States-have become increasingly mechanized, so that today we feel very strongly that if we can take anything out of human hands and especially out of the human heart and put it through a machine, we have made progress. Indeed, we flatter ourselves that we can make machines that think like human beings, while not always pausing to reflect that in the process we have also succeeded in making millions of human beings who can feel and think like machines. It is a sorry reflection.”