Cynicism is intellectual treason.

The physician knows that his little black bag can carry him only so far and that the body's own healing system is the main resource.

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

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

The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling. People who fear the worst tend to invite it. Heads that are down can't scan the horizon for new openings. Bursts of energy do not spring from a spirit of defeat. Ultimately, helplessness leads to hopelessness.

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.

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.