If news is not really news unless it is bad news, it may be difficult to claim we are an informed nation

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

Each patient carries his own doctor inside him.

All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.

A casual attitude toward human hurt and pain is the surest sign of educational failure.

We are becoming a nation of sissies and hypochondriacs, a self medicating society easily intimidated by pain and prone to panic. We understand almost nothing about the essential robustness of the human body or its ability to meet the challenge of illness.