Dr. Anil Potti believes in treating the entire person – not just the disease. His motto (one that he learned from one of his patients) which has helped him during his own personal battles and one that he always tries to pass on to his patients is “Hope beats despair everyday of the week and twice on Sundays”.

Here are a few other sayings that Dr. Anil Potti believes in and advocates for patients and their families.

Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death.  ~Author Unknown

Positive things happen to Positive thinkers.  ~Yogi

Don’t give up, Don’t ever give up.  ~Jimmy Valvano

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.  ~Winston Churchill

As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.  ~Emmanuel

Some days there won't be a song in your heart.  Sing anyway.  ~Emory Austin

The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.  ~C.C. Scott

Do not be afraid of tomorrow; for God is already there.  ~Author Unknown

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.  ~Eleanor Roosevelt

The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated.  ~Plato

Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear.  That's how he finds that he can bear anything.  ~William Faulkner

It's not the years in your life that count.  It's the life in your years.  ~Abraham Lincoln

Once you choose hope, anything's possible.  ~Christopher Reeve

Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts - it's what you do with what you have left.  ~Hubert Humphrey

Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops... at all.  ~Emily Dickinson