I think that people get experiences, and out of those experiences come meaning and ideas. It's like watching a rose bush grow.

We are all healers of each other. Look at David Spiegel's fascinating study of putting people together in a support group and seeking that some people in it live twice as long as other people who are not in a support group. I asked David what went on in those groups and he said that people just cared about each other. Nothing big, no deep psychological stuff-people just cared about each other. The reality is that healing happens between people.

Religion is a bridge to the spiritual, but the spiritual lies beyond religion.

Big messages come in small packages. All it may take to restore someone's trust in life may be returning a lost earring or a dropped glove.

I have no idea about what death is, but because I have been in association with it so intimately, I have a much greater sense of the value of life and of what life can be.

When people are blessed they discover that their lives matter, that there is something in them worthy of blessing.

The choice people have to make is never between slavery and freedom. We will always have to choose between slavery and the unknown.