The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources-spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical.

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

At a Dodger baseball game in Los Angeles, I asked Will Durant if he was ninety-four or ninety-five. "Ninety-four," he said. "You don't think I'd be doing anything as foolish as this if I were ninety-five, do you?"

Don't defy the diagnosis, try to defy the verdict.

It is well known that panic, despair, depression, hate, rage, exasperation, frustration all produce negative biochemical changes in the body.

Words have to be crafted, not sprayed. They need to be fitted together with infinite care.