If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options medically and emotionally: give up or Fight Like Hell.

HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it.

The only medicine for suffering crime and all other woes of mankind is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

There is no medicine like hope no incentive so great and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

Surely every medicine is an innovation and he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

I have to tell you the things I have told you often before, for until digestion is well established medicine has to be taken.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey at a mild season through a pleasant country in easy stages.

Medicines are only fit for old people.

A wise man should not divulge the formula of a medicine which he has well prepared, an act of charity which he has performed, domestic conflicts, private affairs with his wife, poorly prepared food he may have been offered, or slang he may have heard.

We should secure and keep the following: the blessings of meritorious deeds wealth grain the words of the spiritual master and rare medicines. Otherwise life becomes impossible.

Modern medicine for all its advances knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively.

When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation he offered to touch-up my X-rays.

A Jewish woman had two chickens. One got sick so the woman made chicken soup out of the other one to help the sick one get well.