Do you prefer that you be right or happy?

All things are possible, once enough human beings realize that everything is at stake.

Of all the gifts bestowed by nature on human beings, hearty laughter must be close to the top.

Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

The physician's ability to reassure the patient is a major factor in activating the body's own healing system.

We have learned to live in a world of mistakes and defective products as if they were necessary to life. It is time to adopt a new philosophy in America.

Infinity converts the possible into the inevitable.

History is a vast early warning system.

The old emphasis upon superficial differences that separate peoples must give way to education for citizenship in the human community.

Belief creates biology.

Each patient carries his own doctor inside him.

The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling. People who fear the worst tend to invite it. Heads that are down can't scan the horizon for new openings. Bursts of energy do not spring from a spirit of defeat. Ultimately, helplessness leads to hopelessness.

Integration is a basic law of life; when we resist it, disintegration is the natural result, both inside and outside of us. Thus we come to the concept of harmony through integration.

Laughter serves as a blocking agent. Like a bullet-proof vest, it may help protect you against the ravages of negative emotions that can assault you in disease.

Education tends to be diagrammatic and categorical, opening up no sluices in the human imagination on the wonder of the beauty of our unique estate in the cosmos. Little wonder that it becomes so easy for our young to regard human hurt casually or to be uninspired by the magic of sensitivity.

Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations.

It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.

A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.

What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.

Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.