We all know we're going to die one day, but who wants to think about it? What's sustainable is joy, pleasure and freedom.

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.

But he'd learned long ago that a life lived without risks pretty much wasn't worth living. Life rewarded courage, even when that first step was taken neck-deep in fear.

A good action is never lost

I do remember, and then when I try to remember, I forget.

I don't want to start a movement that mirrors religion. I don't want to create the church of the non-believers where I'm the preacher and we're all gathering together and reciting things.

O foolish anxiety of wretched man, how inconclusive are the arguments which make thee beat thy wings below!

A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.

The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.

It's incredible to get people to turn out right in the middle of no where.

There was a time when metal ruled the world and I don't see any reason why it should be different now.