I am a scientist and I am a physician. So I write papers.

Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients.

Pharmacology is benefited by the prepared mind. You need to know what you are looking for.

History repeats, but science reverberates.

I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.

All cancers are alike but they are alike in a unique way.

Cancer was not disorganized chromosomal chaos. It was organized chromosomal chaos

There is a very moving and ancient connection between cancer and depression.

Down to their innate molecular core, cancer cells are hyperactive, survival-endowed, scrappy, fecund, inventive copies of ourselves.

A positive attitude does not cure cancer, any more than a negative one causes it.

One swallow is a coincidence, but two swallows make summer.

We are all prisoners of circumstance at one point or another.

It is what you think it is that makes it so, and not necessarily what it really is.

When we cannot get what we love we must love what is within our reach.

A person whose mind is quiet and satisfied in God is in the pathway to health.

The Stoics also teach that God is unity, and that he is called Mind and Fate and Jupiter, and by many other names besides.

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.

Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good man, a knave.

I think people now live in an age in which the only thing - they don't think about getting ahead. They think about surviving.

Violence always thrived on counter violence.

I have with me all that I do not knowI have lost none of it.