The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope

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

For every low there is an equal but opposite high.

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.

Never deny a diagnosis, but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it.

What people most need now is to apply their conversion skills to those things that are essential for their survival. They need to convert facts into logic, free will into purpose, conscience into decision. They need to convert historical experience into a design for a sane world.

My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.