Most people assume that physician language is akin to technical, non-understandable jargon. It does not have to be that way. Doctors do not perform witchcraft. They simply interpret what they are told and what tests reveal. They diagnose and prescribe treatment. Our responsibility is to help doctors know what is going on in our bodies and to insist on clear, precise, understandable language in response.

I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.

If you can't fill the till, then don't pass the bill.

[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.

Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.

Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density, builds your muscular strength so that you can hold your body up where those bones have a tendency to get weak.

I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.