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With spectacular events taking up so much of the available anxiety quotient, we need to be constantly reminded of the more workaday threats to our mortality - threats that, while they may also be functions of human error, have become so ubiquitous that we've begun to apprehend them as natural phenomena.

Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.

Anxiety has afflicted me all my life.

To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another.

As we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the spirit.

Worry is spiritual short sight. Its cure is intelligent faith.

The ability to sympathize with those around us seems crucial to our survival, and it's connected to the mirroring functions of the brain.

Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.

We like to believe that, in our lifetime, the human condition is improving.

We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.