There is no mistaking love. You feel it in your heart. It is the common fiber of life, the flame that heats our soul, energizes our spirit, and supplies passion to our lives.

It's not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather our concern must be to live while we're alive.

We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.

I say to people who care for people who are dying, if you really love that person and want to help them, be with them when their end comes close. Sit with them - you don't even have to talk. You don't have to do anything but really be there with them.

Free choice is the greatest gift God gives to his children.

How do the geese know when to fly to the sun?

Fear and Guilt are the only enemies of man.