Fortunately, perhaps, I was completely ignorant of the orthodox theory of the disease polio-myelitis.

The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has been written.

My mother used to say, 'He who angers you, conquers you!' But my mother was a saint.

I'd like to live every moment of my life, but not a moment after.

A measure of victory has been won, and honors have been bestowed in token thereof. But honours fade or are forgotten, and monuments crumble into dust. It is the battle itself that matters - and the battle must go on.

If someone angers you, they control you.

I was wholly unprepared for the extraordinary attitude of the medical world in its readiness to condemn anything that smacked of reform or that ran contrary to approved methods of practice.