“People love talking of their diseases, although they are the most uninteresting things in their lives.”

“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.”

“There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.”

“Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.”

“Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.”

“Pythagoras said that medicine is the most godlike of arts. But if the most godlike, it should tend to the soul as well as the body, or else a living thing must be unhealthy, being diseased in its higher part.”

“To live fully, we must learn to use things and love people, and not love things and use people.”

“The most important things in life are not 'things'.
To me, they are the people, the lives.”

“People learned to live with the
most unimaginable things.”

“People living with AIDS should not be dying from preventable and treatable diseases.”