A surgeon is surrounded by people who are sick, discouraged, afraid, embittered, dying - but also courageous, loving, wise, compassionate and alive.

I believe that we are here to contribute love to the planet - each of us in our own way

Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires - disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way.

If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn.

Compliments are the helium that fills everyone's balloon; they elevate the person receiving them so he or she can fly over life's troubles and land safely on the other side.

One's attitude towards oneself is the single most important factor in healing and staying well.

You can't control the world, but when you control your thoughts, you bring order.

Love is giving with no expectations...Love cures, heals, and rewards two people: the lover and the beloved.

Love releases incredible energy that promotes the biochemistry of healing.

Your body loves you, but if you do not love your life, it will end it far sooner, thinking it is doing you a favor.

One cannot get through life without pain...What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us.

I have to go, " I say, helpless.What makes you say the opposite of what every cell in your body wants you to say?

Writers are not narcissists. They simply acknowledge that what they find interesting is not unique to them.

There are no pessimists

Americans think Soviets are so grim. I want them to see that they can smile.

The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.

It's amazing how much distance one truth can create between two people.

Be loving, and you will never want for love; be humble, and you will never want for guiding.

The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we had been endowed with.

As she read the ten commandments for the first time, a Chinese woman said, "I don't see how anyone can very well get on without them."

Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I'm attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intellectually.