Each patient carries his own doctor inside him.

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.

We have everything we need, in fact, except the most important thing of all — time to think and the habit of thought.

The most costly disease is boredom costly for both individual and society.

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

Why are people more appalled at what they term an unnatural form of dying than by an unnatural form of living?

I have learned never to underestimate the capacity of the human mind and body to regenerate - even when prospects seem most wretched. The life force may be the least understood force on earth.