The physician's ability to reassure the patient is a major factor in activating the body's own healing system.

More and more, the choice for the world's people is between becoming world warriors or world citizens.

Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations.

The need is to recognize that The patient is the healer, Not the doctor.

At a Dodger baseball game in Los Angeles, I asked Will Durant if he was ninety-four or ninety-five. "Ninety-four," he said. "You don't think I'd be doing anything as foolish as this if I were ninety-five, do you?"

The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose.

The essence of man is imperfection. Failure is simply a price we pay to achieve success. If we learn to embrace that new definition of failure, then we are free to start moving ahead - and failing forward.