In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.

The physician knows that his little black bag can carry him only so far and that the body's own healing system is the main resource.

Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.

Laughter serves as a blocking agent. Like a bullet-proof vest, it may help protect you against the ravages of negative emotions that can assault you in disease.

The one thing I have learned about editing over the years is that you have to edit and publish out of your own tastes, enthusiasms, and concerns, and not out of notions or guesswork about what other people might like to read.

For every low there is an equal but opposite high.

The marvelous pharmacy that was designed by nature and placed into our being by the universal architect produces most of the medicines we need.