To me the ideal doctor would be a man endowed with profound knowledge of life and of the soul, intuitively divining any suffering or disorder of whatever kind, and restoring peace by his mere presence. – Henri Amiel
To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. – Henri Amiel
Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison. – Henri Amiel
There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health. – Henri Amiel
Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, as the centralized nature of Haitian society as being revealed by the earthquake. I mean, they lost all these medical training programs because they didnt have them anywhere else. – Paul Farmer