The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life.

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.

Time given to thought is the greatest time saver of all.

Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.

Pessimism is a waste of time.

Death is not the greatest tragedy in life. The greatest tragedy is what dies inside us while we live. We need not fear death. We need fear only that we may exist without having sensed something of the possibilities that lie within human existence.

Laughter is a powerful way to tap positive emotions