“Of course, we often think we have to get sick literally in order to get the rest or pleasure we need in our lives. Bobbie and I therefore taught our children when they were younger that if they nee...”

“Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.”

“One cannot get through life without pain. ... What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us.”

“In the face of uncertainty there is nothing wrong with hope.”

“One cannot get through life without pain.... What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us.”

“The simple truth is that happy people generally don't get sick.”

“Knowing the self is the biggest truth. If we find the truth within, we have found God.”

“This above all: to thine own self be true.”

“What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me.”

“I think the highest forgiveness is to accept that creation is thoroughly tangled, with every possible quality given outlet for expression. People need to accept once and for all that there is only ...”

“You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.”

“Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.”