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.

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

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

The doctor knows that it is the prescription slip itself, even more than what is written on it, that is often the vital ingredient for enabling a patient to get rid of whatever is ailing him.

Intelligence and the spirit of adventure can be combined to create new energies, and out of these energies may come exciting and rewarding new prospects.

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

Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?