Progress begins with the belief that what is necessary is possible.

The physician's ability to reassure the patient is a major factor in activating the body's own healing system.

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling. People who fear the worst tend to invite it. Heads that are down can't scan the horizon for new openings. Bursts of energy do not spring from a spirit of defeat. Ultimately, helplessness leads to hopelessness.

Intelligence and the spirit of adventure can be combined to create new energies, and out of these energies may come exciting and rewarding new prospects.

My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.

If news is not really news unless it is bad news, it may be difficult to claim we are an informed nation