Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.

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.

The essence of man is imperfection.

He who keeps his cool best wins.

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.

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.

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.