Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about.

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 can't control the world, but when you control your thoughts, you bring order.

What I learned was to live in my heart and to do what will make my happy, and that was not selfishness. It didn't matter what job I took, my mother's answer was, "Do what will make you happy." It brought attention to my own feelings, and the realization that I never knew what the future would bring so to keep an optimistic view of it, because who knows what today's events will bring.

If you talk to your body, it will listen.

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.'

For me, a lovely day is any day I wake up.