What a shame to be so afraid of failure that you stop living. My wife has a great one-liner about failure: "Never consider yourself a failure-you can always serve as a bad example." She is right. Failure can be a better teacher than success.

Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.

You can see people draw the past, present and future as well as dream about it. You go to bed at night and have a dream that says there's a lump in your right breast and the doctor who is foreign, with an accent tells you it's cancer.

We have to create perfection through love

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.

It is the experience of living that is important, not searching for meaning. We bring meaning by how we love the world.

As doctors, we are not trained to communicate and understand the power of our words as they relate to a patient's ability and desire to survive.