Getting well is not the only goal. Even more important is learning to live without fear, to be at peace with life and ultimately death.

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.

There is no conscience in a real war.

Would you believe in a story without the heroes? There are stories without heroes.

I'm most proud of the longevity of my marriage, my kids, and my grandchildren. If you don't have that, you really don't have very much.

You can't slit the throat of everyone whose character it would improve.

The voice of every kid hooked on drugs, alcohol or the occult joins the sad chorus "Not me! I didn't think it could ever happen to me. I was sure I could handle it.

Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.

Something always happens. You still have to promise stuff anyway. If you have to work to make the promises true... it's like a spell. You have to say the words every time you want the results.

I can remember when a good politician had to be 75 percent ability and 25 percent actor, but I can well see the day when the reverse could be true.

Life is like unto a long journey with a heavy burden.

In fact, I had previously helped train one of the FBI agents who searched my apartment.