As a girl my temper often got out of bounds. But one day when I became angry at a friend over some trivial matter, my mother said to me, Elizabeth, anyone who angers you conquers you.

He who angers you conquers you.

Memories do not always behave in an orderly way, but bloom, as it were, erratically.

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

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.

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

The American doctor possesses a combination of conservatism and... an eagerness to know what it is really all about, in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it.