The best prescription is knowledge.

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.

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

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

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.

Have you ever had a girlfriend, Kenji?" me?

There's a queer streak in human natures. Men come back to places for secret reasons, for feelings they cannot resist.'More than men come back, ” I said.

Nobody remembers how long anything takes; they only remember how good it was in the end.

Abandon the 'I', because it's a lie.

It is very much easier to divide your outlook on the world into two halves, to say that you know this belongs to the daily half and this belongs to the Sunday half.

Je sais de quelles petitesses meurent les plus grandes amours. I know how pettiness ruins the greatest loves.

Talking can transform minds, which can transform behaviors, which can transform institutions.

So eager for eternal damnation.

The whole aim of Zen is not to make foolproof statements about experience, but to come to direct grips with reality without the mediation of logical verbalizing.

Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.