“But first we must be able to bequeath to our children the most fundamental of all rights, which preconditions all others; the right to survival.”

Do as much as possible for the patient, and as little as possible to the patient.

We physicians have focused on the nuclear threat as the singular issue of our era. We are not indifferent to other human rights and hard-won civil liberties.

The International Declaration of Human Rights says the right to housing, health, education should be guaranteed to everyone.

As long as we rationalize nuclear weapons as “necessary” in order to save American lives, then nuclear weapons will never be gotten rid of.

We must convince each generation that they are but transient passengers on this planet earth. It does not belong to them. They are not free to doom generations yet unborn. They are not at liberty to erase humanity’s past nor dim its future.

Martin Buber suggested that evil prevailed because of the inability of man to imagine the real.

Yet human beings do have that capacity. Lord Byron, a poet favored by Alfred Nobel, captured the stark essence of a post-nuclear world in his poem Darkness.

I see nuclear weapons as the ultimate evil, not just evil, but the ultimate evil with the potential to make life unlivable on this planet.

Nuclear bombs have made mass murder a reality. Nuclear bombs threaten humankind.

Some of life’s biggest and most positive changes are propelled by mini conspiracies of a few well-meaning folks.

The security provided by a long-held belief system, even when poorly founded, is a strong impediment to progress.

Once a new paradigm takes hold, its acceptance is extraordinarily rapid and one finds few who claim to have adhered to a discarded method.

General acceptance of a practice becomes the proof of its validity, though it lacks all other merit.

The moment these things are provided, we will have a different world order and nuclear weapons will become less of a threat.

You began your journey here as a pup. Now you must find your way back. A new quest, a new start.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

We must have Christian ethics for our children, good and strong, but we must make them attractive, too, and it can be done.

We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.

To hear, one must be silent.

To be free, the workers must have choice. To have choice they must retain in their own hands the right to determine under what conditions they will work.

Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.