It is well known that panic, despair, depression, hate, rage, exasperation, frustration all produce negative biochemical changes in the body.

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 capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

The most costly disease is boredom costly for both individual and society.

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.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.