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

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.

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

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.

A man who can own pearls does not bother about shells, and those who aspire to virtue do not trouble themselves over honors.

The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.

I compare arithmetic with a tree that unfolds upwards in a multitude of techniques and theorems while the root drives into the depths.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

The voices of all creatures are in the voices of the river.

I feel blessed, I really feel fulfilled.

Something about her eyes or voice has always suggested the hint of a free spirit, trapped in a Peck and Peck cage, dreaming of making rude noises at public gatherings of Republicans.

When God gives you comforts, it is your great evil not to observe His hand in them.

you dont see me, now you do, but only if i want you to

Jay Adams may not have been the world's best skater, but he was the man, the real deal, the original, the first. He is the archetype of our shared heritage.