Love and intimacy are at the root of what makes us sick and what makes us well...I am not aware of any other factor in medicine-not diet, not smoking, not exercise-that has a greater impact.

Stress is not so much what you do, but how you react to what you do.

When I talk about forgiveness, I mean letting go, not excusing the other person or reconciling with them or condoning the behavior. Just letting go of your own suffering.

The need for love and intimacy is a fundamental human need, as primal as the need for food, water, and air.

Real power is not given to us or even created; real power is realized. It comes from realizing an inner sense of peace, self-worth, and happiness.

Joy of living is sustainable; fear of dying is not.

The healing power of love and relationships has been documented in an increasing number of well-designed scientific studies involving hundreds of thousands of people throughout the world.

An educated patient is empowered; thus, more likely to become healthy.

People don't dislike change, they dislike being changed.

Even more than feeling healthy, most people want to feel free and in control.

In general, losing weight is a good thing for those who are overweight, but it's important to lose weight in a way that enhances your health rather than one that may compromise it.

A true friend is the greatest possesion.

Sometimes it's about playing a poor hand well.

Sometimes people say to you that you should try to be in a bigger film, but it's the way it pans out.

Beauty is a horrible power.

The love of one sole being is a barbarism; for it will be employed to the detriment of all the rest. So too the love of God.

In a choice between love and fear, choose love.

[After Vietnam] the type of interventions that are carried out are designed so as not to elicit public reactions.

An actor has to evaluate his own abilities and be honest with himself.

Lightning flashed dully inside the clouds on the horizon making them look as if they had fireflies of their own, monster fireflies the size of dinosaurs.

Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.