It takes more distress and poison to kill someone who has peace of mind and loves life.

One cannot get through life without pain...What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us.

Bobby and I were married in 1954 and by now we know that anger does not mean "I don't love you" or "I want a divorce." It means, "I am wounded and in need of love, and I feel safe telling you about it because you are my family." Sometimes our behavior with each other is no different from the cry of an unattended baby.

To paraphrase something the anthropologist Ashley Montagu once said, the way I change my life is to act as if I'm the person I want to be. This is, to me, the simplest, wisest advice you can give anyone. When you wake up and act like a loving person, you realize not only that you are altered, but that the people around you are also transformed, because everybody is changed by the reception of this love.

Act as if you are the person you want to be.

The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves, having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives.

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