Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires - disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way.

— Bernie S. Siegel

Doctors are busy playing God when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides the job is taken.

— Bernie S. Siegel

Don't do things to not die do things to enjoy living. The by-product may be not dying.

— Bernie S. Siegel

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

— Bernie S. Siegel

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

— Bernie S. Siegel

It takes more distress and poison to kill someone who has peace of mind and loves life.

— Bernie S. Siegel

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 needed a day off from school, they should just say that and take a health day, not a sick day. That made them look at life differently. I think all of us need to rethink our attitudes toward health and sickness.

— Bernie S. Siegel

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

— Bernie S. Siegel

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

— Bernie S. Siegel

Refusal to hope is nothing more than a decision to die.

— Bernie S. Siegel