The heart of the matter is that some people like to cause injury or death to living things. And many of those who do not are indifferent to those who do.

History is a vast early warning system.

The greatest force in the human body is the natural drive of the body to heal itself - but that force in not independent of the belief system. Everything begins with belief. What we believe is the most powerful option of all.

Cynicism is intellectual treason.

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

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.

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.