If a man dies of cancer in fear and despair, then cry for his pain and celebrate his life. The other man, who fought like hell and laughed in the end, but also died, may have had an easier time in his final months, but took his leave with no more humanity.

We build our personalities laboriously and through many years, and we cannot order fundamental changes just because we might value their utility; no button rea…

Few intellectual tyrannies can be more recalcitrant than the truths that everybody knows and nearly no one can defend with any decent data (for who needs proof…

A hot topic of late, expressed most notably in Bernie Siegel's best-selling books, has emphasized the role of positive attitude in combating such serious disea…

'It costs so much to be a full human being that there are very few who have the enlightenment, or the courage, to pay the price:. One has to abandon altogether…

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

He would not yield, he thought, and walk more slowly, As if he knew for certain he walked to death: But with his usual pace,-deliberate, firm, Looking about hi…