Get it out. The pain doesn't have as much power when you share it.

At both school and at home, I lost myself in books.

To be free, you must think. There is no way to follow blindly and to be free.

I am inspired to write, and I write to inspire.

What is actual is actual only for one time and only for one place.

A good friend is worth pursuing... but why would a good friend be running away?

In the air we breathe, in the water we drink, in the earth we tread on, Life is every where. Nature lives: every pore is bursting with Life ; every death is only a new birth, every grave a cradle.

If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all.

We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us.

Regardless of one victory, two victories, four victories, there's never been a victory by a cancer survivor. That's a fact that hopefully I'll be remembered for.

Not to employ prayer with my patients was the equivalent of deliberately withholding a potent drug or surgical procedure.

there never is a happy ending because nothing ever ends.