Nothing is more essential in the treatment of serious disease than the liberation of the patient from panic and foreboding.

What was significant about the laughter . . . was not just the fact that it provides internal exercise for a person . . . form of jogging for the innards, but that it creates a mood in which the other positive emotions can be put to work, too.

What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.

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

All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.

The most costly disease is boredom costly for both individual and society.

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.