I call horses 'divine mirrors' - they reflect back the emotions you put in. If you put in love and respect and kindness and curiosity, the horse will return that.

People think of science as rolling back the mystery of God. I look at science as slowly creeping toward the mystery of God.

When people are facing a severe illness or a major surgery, that may be one of the most significant opportunities for spiritual transformation that they will encounter.

I call horses divine mirrors - they reflect back the emotions you put in. If you put in love and respect and kindness and curiosity, the horse will return that.

There are plenty of studies that have shown that depression is associated with decreased immunity. So I want to harness all of the positive emotional energy I can in a patient to get better.

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.

Laughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.

It's easier to learn many other things, if you first learn how to learn.

Writing fiction takes me out of time. I sit down and the clock will not exist for me for a few hours. That’s probably as close to immortal as we’ll ever get.

It's not the gentle part I have a problem with, it's the dull, stupid part.

Loving life is a two-way street... We don't receive care and compassion if we don't extend them to others.

They say that death kills you, But death doesn't kill you. Boredom and indifference kill you.

There was this superstitious fear on the part of the pygmies of the present for the relics of the giants of the past.

I think that most people, and by people I mean journalists, think that I pre-conceive everything and that I spend my afternoons dreaming up self-mythologizing points of interest.

I'm so busy writing and editing two books a year that I don't have time for painting anymore.