Celebrities might be experts when it comes to working the red carpet, but relying on them to guide your health and wellness can be a slippery slope.
Strength and weakness of mind are misnomers; they are really nothing but the good or bad health of our bodily organs.
I'm still a farm boy at heart. If I hadn't suffered from asthma as a child, I would be a farmer today.
A passion for flowers, is, I think, the only one which long sickness leaves untouched with its chilling influence.
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
Few spirits are made better by the pain and languor of sickness; as few great pilgrims become eminent saints.
Every little thing I've done as an adult and as a young adult, I've done diabetic.
The fact that my environment influences my life so much - and that my environment is in my control - gives me a great sense of empowerment over my health and my life.
I knew a witty physician who found theology in the biliary duct, and used to affirm that if there was a disease in the liver, the man became a Calvinist, and if that organ was sound, he became a Unitarian.
The person who decides what shall be the food and drink of a family, and the modes of its preparation, is the one who decides, to a greater or less extent, what shall be the health of that family.
All know the importance of sustaining the hopes of a sick man. The reason of this is that his nervous system is then, vastly more than in health, susceptible to the influence of particular states of the mind.
Cancer... changed my whole work attitude.
Consciously or unconsciously, health can be transmitted. A very strong man, living with a weak man, will make him a little stronger, whether he knows it or not.
