“When my body gets to the point where I can no longer function or feel gratitude, then I’ll leave it and become grateful again. But until then, I will appreciate what I have and not whine about what I don’t have,”

As doctors, we are not trained to communicate and understand the power of our words as they relate to a patient’s ability and desire to survive.

Take one role model, as often as needed. Set aside a few minutes today to fill this prescription so you will have it handy when you need it. Think now about who your role models have been. What do they offer?

I am convinced that unconditional love is the most powerful known stimulant of the immune system.

Animal intuitives can diagnose an animal’s physical health problems by listening to the animals.

Those who look on the world with love will need a handkerchief, not to use as a blindfold, but to blow their nose and dry their tears.

The simple truth is that happy people generally don’t get sick

You are in charge of your thoughts and feelings. If you are willing to search for the reason that you can’t let go of disturbing thoughts, you can learn about yourself and restore your own peace of mind.

Feelings aroused by the touch of someones hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith – all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well.

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

When I get back into the city, it doesn’t matter where you plop me down, I have my friends around me and I feel so blessed.

The church persecuted is the church pure, and the church pure is the church powerful.

I believe that Americans by and large have been cursed with blessings, and perhaps before long we’ll be blessed with cursings.

We prefer one room in Rangoon to six in Boston.

We feel that we are highly blessed.

Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.

It is not arrogance to appreciate what Allah has blessed you with; arrogance is to ascribe those blessings to yourself.

Abu Dharr once described the people of the world, says, They breed what will they ultimately bury, they build what will eventually be destroy.