We all recognize that in recent decades, many important achievements have helped create a cleaner, healthier environment, yet our national needs in environmental health are not being fully met.

I am also actively involved in my church and its community activities. We have programs to improve the lives of our congregation and programs of outreach in the community.

One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices.

I spent some time at White Memorial Medical Center as a senior medical student doing a rotation in surgery; however, I felt I wasn't getting enough time assisting.

I would like the Medical Society to be one of the resources for information about the influences that have an impact on our patients and our practices.

Compulsive modernization is the insatiable desire to change and grow.

The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should.

I would like to promote the concept of a partnership of insurance companies, physicians and hospitals in deploying a basic framework for an electronic medical records system that is affordable.

The liquid state of modernity is corrosive to continuity.

One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management decisions.

It is important to consider whether the sample size selected by the Environmental Genome Project will provide sufficient power to discover most alleles relevant to gene-environment interactions.

Believe that you are unique with infinite love and beauty in your soul.

I don't want to be the person who gasps in fear whenever she hears the sound of a doorbell or a phone. I just want to lose myself in these hills, in the river winding west to the city of bridges.

The channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

It's every little girl's dream," she said. "Interpol surveillance. And kittens.

When someone tells me that 'the Almighty told me to do this', I want to see the transcript.

I'm not afraid to compete. It's just the opposite. Don't you see that? I'm afraid I will compete - that's what scares me.

Success will not happen through (os.mo.sis), osmosis.

Every country should have a strong literary tradition of its own at the center, but it should also have an interest in other countries.

Every time a shaman dies, it is as if a library burned down.

Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.