The need for connection and community is primal, as fundamental as the need for air, water, and food.

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.

The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians.

Possibility is spiritual.

It’s like they were worried that I’d be alone all day brooding and painting my cabin black or something—sheesh.

Patient endurance attends to all things.

Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men any more than fine feathers make fine birds.

When are people going to learn? Democracy doesn't work.

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

Every calamity should lead to a thorough cleansing of individual as well as social life.

I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.

The best thing about making films is the time spent making them. When I see works that I've made, I always think what a great time I had making them. The films remind me of that time.