Drugs don't work in patients who don't take them.

When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.

Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.

The best prescription is knowledge.

When a faith-healer commands God to perform a miracle, in the absence of a prayer that says, 'Thy will be done,' it is, as far as I am concerned, the most rank form of arrogance . . . The faith-healer Bosworth once said that faith makes God act. If you follow that line of reasoning God is in His heaven, but Bosworth rules the world!

A thousand people will stop smoking today. Their funerals will be held sometime in the next three or four days.

Your choice of diet can influence your long term health prospects more than any other action you might take.