One cannot get through life without pain.... What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us.

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.

The simple truth is that happy people generally don't get sick.

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

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.

It is easier to wipe a thousand tears from your eyes than to wipe a single tear from your soul.

Hate is no respecter of race - as apparently neither is stupidity.

The trouble is Indians aren't used to being prosperous. We are more comfortable dealing with poverty- after all, poverty has been the staple here, and has been for many centuries.

The best antidote to prejudice is reality.

I'm in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.

The desire to see and the desire to ratify what one has seen are desires at odds with one another, if only because they proceed from separate places in the imagination.

Just as the Salt Lake Temple took 40 years to build, stone by stone, you are building a virtuous life, step by step.

The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.

Everything is beautiful in it's own way. Like the starry summer night, or a snow-covered winter's day. And everybody's beautiful in their own way. Under God's heaven, the world's gonna find the way.

Never run away from anything. Never!