Refusal to hope is nothing more than a decision to die.

Hoping means seeing that the outcome you want is possible and then working for it.

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.

You cannot fail at being yourself. A cat doesn't try to be a tiger, and you shouldn't try to be something you aren't. You are a process, not a product. Your job is to discover what you are and create that creature. You still won't be perfect, but success isn't about perfection-it is about authenticity. You are a success if you are being your real, authentic self.

True inspiration overrides all fears. When you are inspired, you enter a trance state and can accomplish things that you may never have felt capable of doing.

Doctors are busy playing God when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides, the job is taken.

I know patients who bring a dozen roses to the doctor's office. And, boy, the next visit, nobody forgets that. You come in and hey - 'Here's the lady who brought the roses' vs. 'Here's the lung cancer.'