No one ever writes me and says, 'We have a happy hospital'. Nowhere is doing it in a healthy way. That's encouragement for me.

I'd say that I think the most revolutionary act that you can commit in our society today is to be happy.

One cannot separate the health of the individual from the health of the community, from the health of the world.

We need to start treating the patient as well as the disease.

I think my government are fascists. I feel that if we don't change from a society that worships money and power over to one that worships compassion and generosity, there is no hope for human survival this century.

The value of friendship and just deep human contact grows out of giving.

At the age of 18, I made up my mind to never have another bad day in my life. I dove into a endless sea of gratitude from which I've never emerged.