The best way to reduce the cost of medical care is to reduce the illness.

I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help rather than suffer.

You can die of the cure before you die of the illness.

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.

The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you.

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed to kindness to knowledge we make promise only pain we obey.

Learning how to be still to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.

There are psychological repercussions to illness and we need a little more help to get through the effects not only on the afflicted but on the family. And I think there's even a place for humor in that.

Most people if you live in a big city you see some form of schizophrenia every day and it's always in the form of someone homeless. 'Look at that guy - he's crazy. He looks dangerous.' Well he's on the streets because of mental illness. He probably had a job and a home.

We can all agree that no American should lose their life savings or their home because of illness or injury and that the rising cost of health care severely burdens individuals families and businesses.