Reply when questioned on the safety of the polio vaccine he developed: It is safe, and you can't get safer than safe.

It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.

What is … important is that we — number one: Learn to live with each other. Number two: try to bring out the best in each other. The best from the best, and the best from those who, perhaps, might not have the same endowment. And so this bespeaks an entirely different philosophy — a different way of life — a different kind of relationship — where the object is not to put down the other, but to raise up the other.

Charlotte's Web Life is magic, the way nature works seems to be quite magical.

When I worked on the polio vaccine, I had a theory. I guided each [experiment] by imagining myself in the phenomenon in which I was interested. The intuitive realm . . . the realm of the imagination guides my thinking.

The mind, in addition to medicine, has powers to turn the immune system around.

There is no such thing as failure, there's just giving up too soon.