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.

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.

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.

Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.

I grew up with a front-row seat to what a happy, healthy marriage looks like. Never perfect, constantly evolving, always united.

There is no greater force for change than people inspired to live a better life.

Gaiety alone as it were is the hard cash of happiness everything else is just a promissory note.

What a dull world if we knew all about geese!

To grow up requires a whole life but to become old one night is enough.

I never knew a man troubled with melancholy, who had plenty to do, and did it.

The entire United States is within range of our nuclear weapons, and a nuclear button is always on my desk. This is reality, not a threat.

The joy of life is to put out one's power in some natural and useful or harmless way. There is no other. And the real misery is not to do this.

You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.