Most doctors are uncomfortable with medical conditions that have a psychological basis.

There's nothing like a little physical pain to keep your mind off your emotional problems.

A knowledgeable physical therapist can slowly build up patients' confidence by reassuring them that there is no structural problem and reminding them of the physiologic reason for the pain.

It is perfectly acceptable to have a physical problem in our culture, but people tend to shy away from anything that has to do with the emotions.

... it is highly unlikely that a structural derangement could produce pain equal in severity to acute muscle spasm.

... surgery is a powerful placebo, perhaps the ultimate placebo. The effectiveness of a placebo is directly proportional to the impression it makes on the patient's subconscious mind.

It is my impression that 'pain-killing' drugs improve the patient's mood rather than take away the pain.

Acknowledging the important role of the emotions in health and illness, medicine must reexamine its concepts of disease causation.

Anyone who believes that exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

[While] disappointment and failure aren’t identical, they often occur together, and both can hold us back from God’s best for our lives.

You can't dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.

Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.

I like to think that it isn't weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness, a stand against oblivion and despair.

It will be celebrated... with pomp and parade... bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other.

Although they like to call themselves journalists, that's a myth even they don't really believe anymore. They're mutts on short leashes.

The church is like manure. Pile it up, and it stinks up the neighborhood. Spread it out, and it enriches the world.

We will rebuild, renew and remain the capital of the free world.

I think that capitalism has just gone too far. And it is actually not limited to the United States. The excesses of capitalism is making us suffer all over the world right now.