It is a sad day when one looks back and sees that his largest regrets have become some of the most integral elements of his dreams.

I began to know that each morning reasserted the problems of night before, that sleep suspended all but changed nothing, that you couldn’t make yourself over between dawn and dusk.

The next major advance in the health of the American people will be determined by what the individual is willing to do for himself.

Looking back now across fifteen years I could see with great clarity the fear I had lived in, which must mean that in the interval I had succeeded in a very important undertaking: I must have made my escape from it.

Never say you are five feet nine when you are five feet eight and a half" was the first one I encountered. Another was, "Always say some prayers at night because it might turn out that there is a God.

Sarcasm... the protest of those who are weak.

You have to do what you think is the right thing, but just make sure it’s the right thing in the long run, and not just for the moment.