An awareness of one's mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.

Your body loves you, but if you do not love your life, it will end it far sooner, thinking it is doing you a favor.

The inexplicable happens all the time. It makes more sense to simply accept things we observe but cannot understand. It is really more scientific to keep an open mind. Until we can understand and explain the things we now label miracles, let us accept them and try to create more of them.

Disease is surely one of the ways in which we are tried by life and offered the chance to be heroic. Though few of us will win Olympic gold medals or slay dragons, disease can be the spark or gift that allows many of us to live out our personal myths and become heroes.

I had patients who didn't die because they had too many pets to try to find homes for. It's why women live longer than men with the same health problems.

I love how Mother Theresa said she wouldn't attend an anti-war rally but if there was a peace rally to call her. So I realized it's not about waging a war against everybody's disease and diagnosis but rather about helping them live.

If God came in and said, I want you to be happy for the rest of your life, what would you do?