I look for mystery and try to decipher it while knowing it is an impossible task. I look for memory, where Mystery lies.

Love is really the only thing we can possess, keep with us, and take with us.

Free choice is the greatest gift God gives to his children.

All events are blessings given to us to learn from and therefore we should be grateful for the opportunity to grow and evolve into our best selves.

Beautiful people do not just happen.

I believe every person has a guardian spirit or angel. They assist us in the transition between life and death and they also help us pick our parents before we are born.

I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

A woman needs to know about blood pressure, blood sugar, and cholesterol. And she needs to know the kinds of things she can do to stay healthy.

There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.

When I came to this country in 1958, to be a dying patient in a medical hospital was a nightmare. You were put in the last room, furthest away from the nurses' station. You were full of pain, but they wouldn't give you morphine. Nobody told you that you were full of cancer and that it was understandable that you had pain and needed medication.

I have learned there is no joy without hardship. There is no pleasure without pain. Would we know the comfort of peace without the distress of war?

I'm not okay, you're not okay, and that's okay.

How do the geese know when to fly to the sun?

There is not much sense in suffering, since drugs can be given for pain, itching, and other discomforts. The belief has long died that suffering here on earth will be rewarded in heaven. Suffering has lost its meaning.

Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.

We bring a deeper commitment to our happiness when we fully understand, that our time left is limited and we really need to make it count.

We point to our unhappy circumstances to rationalize our negative feelings. This is the easy way out. It takes, after all, very little effort to feel victimized.

Denial helps us to pace our feelings of grief. There is a grace in denial. It is nature's way of letting in only as much as we can handle.

As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don't have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do.