An educated patient is empowered; thus, more likely to become healthy.

Stress is not so much what you do, but how you react to what you do.

When I talk about forgiveness, I mean letting go, not excusing the other person or reconciling with them or condoning the behavior. Just letting go of your own suffering.

Love and intimacy are at the root of what makes us sick and what makes us well...I am not aware of any other factor in medicine-not diet, not smoking, not exercise-that has a greater impact.

The need for love and intimacy is a fundamental human need, as primal as the need for food, water, and air.

Real power is not given to us or even created; real power is realized. It comes from realizing an inner sense of peace, self-worth, and happiness.

Joy of living is sustainable; fear of dying is not.

The healing power of love and relationships has been documented in an increasing number of well-designed scientific studies involving hundreds of thousands of people throughout the world.

People don't dislike change, they dislike being changed.

Even more than feeling healthy, most people want to feel free and in control.

In general, losing weight is a good thing for those who are overweight, but it's important to lose weight in a way that enhances your health rather than one that may compromise it.

Salesmen always need something to sell.

To have family behind you who love you more than words can say gives you so much confidence, because it allows you to go off and be who you want to be.

I'd like more kids to go and see theatre because it really is amazing.

The only true measure of success is the amount of joy we are feeling.

I believe when hard-working citizens have earned their pension, it's wrong for Washington bureaucrats and politicians to take their pensions away.

Almost every other Western in the last ten years has failed, since Dances with Wolves.

Let men of all ranks whether they are successful, or unsuccessful, whether they triumph or not; let them do their duty, and rest satisfied.

So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.

The more closely you look at one thing, the less closely can you see something else.

Nobody can tell me that no changes are necessary in Washington.