A thousand people will stop smoking today. Their funerals will be held sometime in the next three or four days.

Drugs don't work in patients who don't take them.

Health care is vital to all of us some of the time, but public health is vital to all of us all of the time

Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation

The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.

You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.

In thirty-five years of medicine I have never seen one case where abortion was necessary to save a mother's life.

The best prescription is knowledge.

Cigarette smoking is clearly identified as the chief, preventable cause of death in our society.

Your choice of diet can influence your long term health prospects more than any other action you might take.

All of the western world raises its children uncircumcised and it seems logical that, with the extent of health knowledge in those countries, such a practice must be safe.

The greater your inner light the brighter your outer world.

We can overcome division only by refusing to be divided.

Confidence comes from hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.

My first crime novel, "Wild Horses," sold at auction, and that changed my life at an ideal time.

Simple is the only way I can write.

Some events do take place but are not true; others are, although they never occurred.

A general principle of good taxation is that similar jobs, and similar kinds of compensation, should be taxed the same way: otherwise, the government is effectively subsidizing some jobs over others.

If it has tires or testicles, you're going to have trouble with it.

I don't court paparazzi. I definitely don't like that part of it.