“Hoping means seeing that the outcome you want is possible and then working for it.”

The doctor that acts out of love doesn’t burn out. He or she may get tired physically, but not emotionally.

Refusal to hope is nothing more than a decision to die.

My view of addiction, whether it’s drugs, food, alcohol or any list of other things, is the same reason I asked my mother why I wasn’t a drug addict or alcoholic, which is because when you’re not loved.

To paraphrase something the anthropologist Ashley Montagu once said, the way I change my life is to act as if I’m the person I want to be. This is, to me, the simplest, wisest advice you can give anyone.

I know patients who bring a dozen roses to the doctor’s office. And, boy, the next visit, nobody forgets that. You come in and hey – ‘Here’s the lady who brought the roses’ vs. ‘Here’s the lung cancer.’

I believe consciousness is non-local and a big part of what we experience with near death and past lives.

Sometimes our behavior with each other is no different from the cry of an unattended baby.

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

At the end of the day, she noticed that everybody around her was happy, too- so she didn’t quit after all. She decided to come to work happy instead. Two years later, she’s still on the job, radiating happiness and love.

Medicine is a very tough thing. I mean, everyone is going to die. Sooner or later. That’s a tough thing to face.

The #1 problem most patients face is the inability to love themselves

Inspiration is the greatest gift because it opens your life to many new possibilities.

It is astounding how much the immune system is strengthened by reducing daily mental stress levels with either visualization or meditation.

Studies of volunteers have shown there is a benefit to performing acts of love for other people.

Doctors are busy playing God when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides, the job is taken.

Thoughts are chemical. They can either kill us or cure us.

Just ’cause there’s snow on the roof doesn’t mean there’s not a fire inside.

Adolescence is interesting. I mean, all of life is interesting and all of life is transitionary. But I think there is an exponential growth physically, intellectually, emotionally and there is so much potential.

In Russia there is great interethnic hatred, class hatred – I mean hatred for wealthy people – that is stirred up by official propaganda. That is why there can be no ‘velvet’ solution, as there was, for example, in Georgia or Ukraine.

Meditating means bringing the mind back to something again and again. Thus, we all meditate, but unless we direct it in some way, we meditate on ourselves and on our own problems, reinforcing our self-clinging.

Faith means that it doesn’t matter what happens. You can trust that somebody is watching. Trust that somebody will make it all right.

We have a guy from Switzerland who is just playing the game in a way I haven’t seen anyone – and I mean anyone – play before.

Certainly, I was typed. But what is typing? It is a trademark, a means by which the public recognizes you. Actors work all their lives to achieve that. I got mine with just one picture. It was a blessing.

To make something really great and different and interesting means taking risks and following these ideas in your head.