No one really knows enough to be a pessimist.

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.

A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.

War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.

Why are people more appalled at what they term an unnatural form of dying than by an unnatural form of living?

We have learned to live in a world of mistakes and defective products as if they were necessary to life. It is time to adopt a new philosophy in America.

Assume responsibility for the quality of your own life