A positive attitude does not cure cancer, any more than a negative one causes it.

Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients.

Pharmacology is benefited by the prepared mind. You need to know what you are looking for.

History repeats, but science reverberates.

I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.

All cancers are alike but they are alike in a unique way.

Cancer was not disorganized chromosomal chaos. It was organized chromosomal chaos

There is a very moving and ancient connection between cancer and depression.

Down to their innate molecular core, cancer cells are hyperactive, survival-endowed, scrappy, fecund, inventive copies of ourselves.

One swallow is a coincidence, but two swallows make summer.

If there's a seminal discovery in oncology in the last 20 years, it's that idea that cancer genes are often mutated versions of normal genes.

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

It is awareness of both our shared pain and our longing for happiness that links us to other people and helps us to turn toward them with compassion.

Stay strong, " said the detective. "They respect strength." What the hell was she supposed to do? Break a chair? Bench-press a Volvo?

I can't remember what I really felt. Maybe nothing happened, maybe these emotions I remember are not the right emotions.

Motherhood unwittingly molds us into all we are now, or are - destined to be.

If one day I leave Arsenal, I will never sign for another English team. Quite sure.

I have three-putted in 40 countries.

I am a nice young girl here to pick up your granddaughter for the weekend... We're going to a Bible retreat to scare the devil out of her. - Bones to Cat's grandparents

The humblest craft that floats makes its appeal to a seaman by the faithfulness of her life.

We've got to build a durable relationship of trust with voters around the things that they are most concerned about.