An awareness of one's mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.

I believe that we are here to contribute love to the planet - each of us in our own way

Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires - disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way.

If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn.

Compliments are the helium that fills everyone's balloon; they elevate the person receiving them so he or she can fly over life's troubles and land safely on the other side.

One's attitude towards oneself is the single most important factor in healing and staying well.

You can't control the world, but when you control your thoughts, you bring order.

Love is giving with no expectations...Love cures, heals, and rewards two people: the lover and the beloved.

Love releases incredible energy that promotes the biochemistry of healing.

Your body loves you, but if you do not love your life, it will end it far sooner, thinking it is doing you a favor.

One cannot get through life without pain...What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us.

Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.

The human brain has a marvelous capacity to screen and sort experience, protecting itself against the unbearable.

There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who want to know the facts, and those who want to make up a nice story to feel better. I wish I was the kind who made up stories.

The goal of a successful trader is to make the best trades. Money is secondary.

Every time you almost die, I almost die myself.

When we were at the Apollo, Holiday was a block away. I asked her for her autograph.

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go... And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

When you are unhappy about something, you can always find thousands of other things to be happy!

For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.

Outside the ring I work hard when I train and I spend as much time as I can with my family when I'm not training.