The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. – Ashley Montagu
One goes through school, college, medical school and ones internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success. – Ashley Montagu
The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease. – Ashley Montagu
It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in ones earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison. – Ashley Montagu