Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.

Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a...

Albert Schweitzer

We are each of us angels with only one wing, to fly we need only embrace each other.

Just as big cities can deplete you with their noise and crowds and sheer sensory overload, a hospital can exhaust you, as its changing faces and personalities blur and strangers...

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

It's essential to tailor rehab to what impassions someone. The brain gradually learns by riveting its attention-through endless repetitions.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.

Disassociating, mindfulness, transcendence-whatever the label-it's a sort of loophole in our contract with reality, a form of self-rescue.

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now -- always

Disassociating, mindfulness, transcendence-whatever the label-it's a sort of loophole in our contract with reality, a form of self-rescue.

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will, his personal responsibility

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Albert Schweitzer

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.