We build our personalities laboriously and through many years, and we cannot order fundamental changes just because we might value their utility; no button reading 'positive attitude' protrudes from our hearts, and no finger can coerce positivity into immediate action by a single and painless pressing.

A hot topic of late, expressed most notably in Bernie Siegel's best-selling books, has emphasized the role of positive attitude in combating such serious disea…

If a man dies of cancer in fear and despair, then cry for his pain and celebrate his life. The other man, who fought like hell and laughed in the end, but also…

Nature is objective, and nature is knowable, but we can only view her through a glass darkly-and many clouds upon our vision are of our own making: social and …

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

It takes a son of a bitch to change a habit.

I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots…