Doctors are busy playing God when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides the job is taken.

Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.

Refusal to hope is nothing more than a decision to die.

It takes more distress and poison to kill someone who has peace of mind and loves life.

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

In the face of uncertainty there is nothing wrong with hope.

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

The simple truth is that happy people generally don't get sick.

Don't do things to not die do things to enjoy living. The by-product may be not dying.

The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives.

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.

The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.

Your destiny lies in your hands and can be molded with each passing day by the choices you make

Stories are made about girls like you. The wild ones, those rare faces that smile in the midst of chaos.

My deep sense of alarm has to do with Donald Trump's seeming lack of fealty to constitutionalism.

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.

Where there is a lull in truth an institution springs up.

I can't think of a performer who is better on television than in person.

I don't want riders who work physically hard. Work by thinking.

Doubt begets understanding, and understanding begets compassion. Verily, it is conviction that kills.

Where are you sleeping tonight? Face down in the mud? That's a British tradition: Take acid and fall asleep in some field.