Assume responsibility for the quality of your own life

The life-force may be the least understood force on earth.

Pain is part of the body's magic. It is the way the body transmits a sign to the brain that something is wrong.

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.

The essence of man is imperfection. Failure is simply a price we pay to achieve success. If we learn to embrace that new definition of failure, then we are free to start moving ahead - and failing forward.

Silence must be comprehended as not solely the absence of sound. It is the natural environment for serenity and contemplation. Life without silence is life without privacy. The difference between sanity and madness is the quality of our thoughts. Silence is on the side of sanity.

Although a man may have no jurisdiction over the fact of his existence, he can hold supreme command over the meaning of existence for him.