I believe that alternative healing methods are much more than just temporary or half measures.

Good health makes a lot of sense, but it does not make a lot of dollars.

Use vitamins in place of drugs. This takes some moxie to do, for we have been taught to be consumers of medicine. We have been taught that anything cheap and safe cannot possibly be effective.

Doctors frequently get it wrong. One out of five patients today is in the hospital because incorrect treatment by a physician put him or her there.

It's unreasonable to expect medical doctors and pharmaceutical companies to tell you how to avoid their services by trying the alternatives.

We need total health more than medically approved health. Our wellness should not be limited to our doctor's experience, but enhanced by our own experience.

If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself. This especially includes your health care.

Change your life. If you want to get better, that is what you have to do.

If you want to be productive, follow leads and dig. Whether it is for oil, gold or information, it requires action - your action. Question authority. Do it yourself.

Self-care means accepting some risk, and accepting much responsibility. It is not for all people or all cases.

Much of the fear of doing something wrong vanishes when we are knowledgeable about what we are doing.

You'd challenge me and lose. You know it, I know it, but you'd still do it. Sometimes your sense of honor confuses the hell out of me.

I never enter a new company without the hope that I may discover a friend, perhaps the friend, sitting there with an expectant smile. That hope survives a thousand disappointments.

My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.

I take great solace that Einstein failed math. I failed math. I also failed English and home economics. Einstein was an underachiever.

But, dear God, don't listen to me. I'm an old lady in the middle of nowhere without a real toilet.

To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to deprecate the value of freedom itself.

To succeed, we must first believe that we can.

Little known fact, or not a little known fact actually - that Prince is a Gemini.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories... The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.