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

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.

The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.

Assume responsibility for the quality of your own life

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.

Cynicism is intellectual treason.

I have learned never to underestimate the capacity of the human mind and body to regenerate - even when prospects seem most wretched. The life force may be the least understood force on earth.