Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

On the quality of life: #1. Realize that each human being has a built-in capacity for recuperation and repair. #2. Recognize that the quality of life is all-important. #3. Assume responsibility for the quality of your own life. #4. Nurture the regenerative and restorative forces within you. #5. Utilize laughter to create a mood in which the other positive emotions can be put to work for yourself and those around you. #6. Develop confidence and ability to feel love, hope and faith, and acquire a strong will to live.

If there is a conflict between the easy drift of prosperity and the ordeal of peace, the ordeal of peace comes first.

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 physician knows that his little black bag can carry him only so far and that the body's own healing system is the main resource.

Each patient carries his own doctor inside him.