Change your life. If you want to get better, that is what you have to do.

Good health makes a lot of sense, but it does not make a lot of dollars.

Use vitamins in place of drugs. This takes some moxie to do, for we have been taught to be consumers of medicine. We have been taught that anything cheap and safe cannot possibly be effective.

Doctors frequently get it wrong. One out of five patients today is in the hospital because incorrect treatment by a physician put him or her there.

It's unreasonable to expect medical doctors and pharmaceutical companies to tell you how to avoid their services by trying the alternatives.

We need total health more than medically approved health. Our wellness should not be limited to our doctor's experience, but enhanced by our own experience.

If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself. This especially includes your health care.

If you want to be productive, follow leads and dig. Whether it is for oil, gold or information, it requires action - your action. Question authority. Do it yourself.

Self-care means accepting some risk, and accepting much responsibility. It is not for all people or all cases.

Much of the fear of doing something wrong vanishes when we are knowledgeable about what we are doing.

I wish there were easy answers to people's health questions. There aren't. There are answers, all right, but they are not easy.

I'm bad at math because I can't find the basic statement in it.

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.

We all have a responsibility to protect endangered species, both for their sake and for the sake of our own future generations.

There are so many people out there working with great grassroots and global and national organizations that are unsung heroes to me.

Jem cried out with all his remaining strength. You cannot go where I am going! Nor would I want that for you!

The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.

You know, it's one thing to say you believe. It's another thing to have your faith tested severely and come out on the other side of it still believing God.

They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excitement that went with it.

Without the ability to visualize a goal and believe it will be reached, nothing of substance will be achieved. Not by anybody. Not at any time. Not in any place.

And I can't complain. After all, only women are able really to love.