My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.

The American people are beginning to think in new ways about health and illness . . . Bernie Siegel is helping to define and open up these new frontiers. In this sense he is in the best medical tradition.

What people most need now is to apply their conversion skills to those things that are essential for their survival. They need to convert facts into logic, free will into purpose, conscience into decision. They need to convert historical experience into a design for a sane world.

All things are possible, once enough human beings realize that everything is at stake.

I cannot affirm God if I fail to affirm man. Therefore, I affirm both. Without a belief in human unity I am hungry and incomplete. Human unity is the fulfillment of diversity. It is the harmony of opposites. It is a many-stranded texture, with color and depth.

Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out their conscience, thus helping bring the collective conscience to life.

The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose.