Reimbursement is a major determinant of how medicine is practiced. When reimbursement changes, so do medical practice and medical education.

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.

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.

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.

Hope and desire, All unfulfilled, Have more than ropeAnd hangman killed.

The thought process can never be complete without articulation.

Poe wrote like a drunkard and a man who is not accustomed to pay his debts.

I am very traditional as a man. I am not modern and never have been. I think I was born 50 years of age and out of my time.

I live in an apocalyptic dream. My steps fit into it so precisely that I fear most of all I will grow bored reliving the thing so exactly.

I like basketball, and I've been to three games, which is so much more fun than seeing it on TV, I think.

Gotta take a risk, take a chance, make a change, and break away. I won't forget the place I came from.

It doesn’t matter if you’re rich or poor-the determining factor of success and happiness is contentment.

So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ideas wriggling, struggling to get free, like a cat trying to get out of your arms.

The less you want, the richer you are. The more you need in order to be happy, the more miserable you’ll be.