"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself-and be lenient to everybody else."
"To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine."
"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road."
"It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship."
"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."
"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?"