I was educated in line with the basic premise: work work work. You are only a valuable human being if you work. This is utterly wrong. Half working, half dancing - that is the right mixture. I myself have danced and played too little.

Dying is nothing to fear. It can be the most wonderful experience of your life. It all depends on how you've lived.

Begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had.

I believe every person has a guardian spirit or angel. They assist us in the transition between life and death and they also help us pick our parents before we are born.

The only incontrovertible fact of my work is the importance of life.

I once considered writing a book called I'm not OK and you're not OK, and that's OK.

We run after values that, at death, become zero. At the end of your life, nobody asks you how many degrees you have, or how many mansions you built, or how many Rolls Royces you could afford. That's what dying patients teach you.