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 physician's ability to reassure the patient is a major factor in activating the body's own healing system.

Pessimism is a waste of time.

Although a man may have no jurisdiction over the fact of his existence, he can hold supreme command over the meaning of existence for him.

At a Dodger baseball game in Los Angeles, I asked Will Durant if he was ninety-four or ninety-five. "Ninety-four," he said. "You don't think I'd be doing anything as foolish as this if I were ninety-five, do you?"

The essence of man is imperfection. Failure is simply a price we pay to achieve success. If we learn to embrace that new definition of failure, then we are free to start moving ahead - and failing forward.

Each patient carries his own doctor inside him.