Don't defy the diagnosis, try to defy the verdict.

You are younger today than you will ever be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow.

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

Nothing is more essential in the treatment of serious disease than the liberation of the patient from panic and foreboding.

Nature has not been lavish in her endowments, but each person has his or her own potential in terms of achievement and service. The awareness of that potential is the discovery of purpose; the fulfillment of that potential is the discovery of strength.

All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.

The need is not to amputate the ego ... but to transcend it.