For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.

I think America and Britain have a different culture from France. They discovered marketing and consumerism before France.

The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea.

I don't get money from the vitamins that I make. My after tax profits go to a foundation that supports integrative medicine.

Health is wholeness and balance, an inner resilience that allows you to meet the demands of living without being overwhelmed.

Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, is not a cause of obesity, heart disease or any other chronic disease of civilization.

If we can make the correct diagnosis, the healing can begin. If we can't, both our personal health and our economy are doomed.

I expect that essential oils may some day prove a vital weapon in the fight against strains of antibiotic-resi stant bacteria.

Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical.

Beware as you get the octopus on board. Suddenly he relaxes his grasp, and shhots out a jet of ink, which smarts considerably.

Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.

It is human nature to seek revenge in the face of relentless suffering. You can’t expect an unhealthy person to think logically.

We're reaching the point where the Earth will have to end the burden we've placed on her, if we don't lift the burden ourselves.

The power in which we must have faith if we would be well, is the creative and curative power which exists in every living thing.

I have failed in finding parasites in mosquitoes fed on malaria patients, but perhaps I am not using the proper kind of mosquito.

For many in the modern world, carving out time for both traditional seated meditation and exercise has become close to impossible.

Keep in mind that there are many neurotoxins in the world. Dozens of natural and industrial substances have neurotoxic properties.

I still live in an apartment in Paris with my wife. No, we don't have a yacht, but we do have a house in Spain; that is my luxury.

There's a lot of different things that we do during life that could personally harm us and I choose not to stop doing those things.

If at the first sign of infection, you always jump in with antibiotics, you do not give the immune system a chance to grow stronger.

In an increasingly complex world, we have a simple and bold vision that all children should have the opportunity to grow up healthy.

If you can get some of the devil's money to use for the Lord's work, if you have to borrow it, it is all right and carry on the work.

I lived in constant terror of being asked a question in class. Even if I knew the answer, I was never able to tell it before the class.

Please keep in mind the distinction between healing and treatment: treatment originates from outside, whereas healing comes from within.

By keeping my hand in that, it's the way I keep learning. The main way you learn in medicine is by practicing and working with patients.

There are people who want to live and then the people who want to hold them down. I've tried to not be one of the latter my entire life.

If he is terrorising the terrorists, if he is terrorising America the terrorist [...] I am with him. Every Muslim should be a terrorist.

It is more important to eat some carbohydrates at breakfast, because the brain needs fuel right away, and carbohydrate is the best source.

Father was very sympathetic, and if the hero of a romance was good or to be pitied, his eyes would fill with tears until he could not see.

It is terrible when an infant dies, but worse, most people think, when a three-year-old child dies, and worse still when an adolescent does.

I very deeply appreciate the honour which you have conferred upon me in awarding the Nobel Prize for 1923 to me and Professor J.J.R. Macleod.

I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum, and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart.

Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously, as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others

The method of estimating the potency of insulin solutions is based on the effect that insulin produces upon the blood sugar of normal animals.

American businesses are struggling to pay outrageous, exploitive insurance bills for their employees, hampering our ability to compete globally.

I know of no culture in the world at present or any time in the past that has not been heavily involved with one or more psychoactive substances.

It is not easy to be a pioneer - but oh, it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment, even the worst moment, for all the riches in the world.

In the time when my mother began standing up against prejudice and racism, the vast majority of white Americans rarely thought about civil rights.

Autism is a complicated illness, and children with a variety of treatments and non-treatments show improvement over time, which is all to the good.

Science is the Differential Calculus of the mind. Art the Integral Calculus; they may be beautiful when apart, but are greatest only when combined.

Numerous US. Government documents exist which indicate that these objects are real and have been involved with observing Earth for several decades.

More than one skillful physician has said that if one asks the right questions, the patient will make the diagnosis for you in his or her own words.

Is God a man with two arms and legs like me? Does He have eyes, a head? Does He have bowels? Well I do, and that makes me more wonderful than He is!

A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food.

Investments in immunization yield a rate of return on a par with educating our children - and higher than nearly any other development intervention.

You can't stop wars to build tertiary teaching hospitals, but you can say, 'Let's stop for a couple of days to immunise the kids.' It has been done.

The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.

I am, I think the only surviving member of the original Battle Creek church. The church was disbanded, with the exception of thirteen members, in 1870.

NCI now actually anticipates further increases, and not decreases, in cancer mortality rates, from 171/100,000 in 1984 to 175/100,000 by the year 2000!

History will not judge HIV/AIDS kindly... the harshest words will be reserved for how the world responded, or rather failed to respond, to the epidemic.

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