When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.

Drugs don't work in patients who don't take them.

Health care is vital to all of us some of the time, but public health is vital to all of us all of the time

Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation

The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.

You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.

A thousand people will stop smoking today. Their funerals will be held sometime in the next three or four days.

In thirty-five years of medicine I have never seen one case where abortion was necessary to save a mother's life.

The best prescription is knowledge.

Cigarette smoking is clearly identified as the chief, preventable cause of death in our society.

Your choice of diet can influence your long term health prospects more than any other action you might take.

Don't go looking for boys in the darkThey will say pretty things thenleave you with scars.Do go looking for boys in the parkFor that is where the true gentlemen are.

Confession and repentance might be described as the negative side of submission

Spiritual": religion without any rules. All the comfort of fictitious friends with none of their demands.

Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny.

The minister's brain is often the "poor-box" of the church.

The best way to engage honestly with the marketplace via Twitter is to never use the words "engage," "honestly," or "marketplace."

For me, there's a very clear parallel between the practice of insight in Buddhism and what's called prajna - the insight that arrives through meditation.

I certainly wouldn't be writing books if it hadn't been for the feminist blogosphere, and I think that's a really amazing thing.

1st Valentine's Day: 200,000 BC men and women congregate on opposite sides of Pangaea, waiting for someone to make the first move.

God is in all things, but so far as God is Divine and so far as He is rational, God is nowhere so properly as in the soul - in the innermost of the soul