I'm not a luddite. Science, computers, medicine, they're all great. But nature is context. That which we can't control. Its constant mortality and immortality is an answer to the terror of finite existence. It reassures the soul.

Medicine will be personalized and preventive: Your genome might predict that you have an 80 percent chance of breast cancer by the time you are 50, but if you take a preventive drug starting when you are 40, the chance will drop to 2 percent.

In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.

Laughter is the best medicine - unless you're diabetic, then insulin comes pretty high on the list.

Walking is man's best medicine.

Most people can't see beauty and love. I see our music as medicine.

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

When you think of things like medicine, people who have lost limbs now have a chance to have a limb replaced that is connected to the brain that they can actually control with their mind. That's amazing.

A merry heart doeth good like a medicine.

DO NOT TELL EVERYONE ABOUT YOUR PROBLEMS, BECAUSE NOT EVERYONE HAS MEDICINE IN THEIR HOUSE, BUT SALT IS DEFINITELY THERE.

I write until my pen bleeds with words that hurt. Do not cry!. My pen is a lethal medicine that killed a few and cured many.

Great quotes are like great medicine; they can cure us when we are down-written in 2008 by Jay Xiong

Love is God's medicine." ~ Amunhotep El Bey

Besides, dearie, your mother didn't really die alone. God was with her till the last breath left her chest. Even had you been there, you couldn't have healed her, not with all your medicine and equipment. God alone numbers our days. God alone heals, and He did-the very moment your mother stepped into heaven. Of that, ye can rest assured.

A mountain is the best medicine for a troubled mind. Seldom does man ponder his own insignificance. He thinks he is master of all things. He thinks the world is his without bonds. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Only when he tramps the mountains alone, communing with nature, observing other insignificant creatures about him, to come and go as he will, does he awaken to his own short-lived presence on earth.

No medicine cures what happiness cannot.

Where lowland is, that's where water goes. All medicine wants is pain to cure.

Few things a doctor does are more important than relieving pain. . . pain is soul destroying. No patient should have to endure intense pain unnecessarily. The quality of mercy is essential to the practice of medicine; here, of all places, it should not be strained.

Singing when no one else is around is always good. I especially like belters. Good, loud singing is probably better medicine than half the stuff they sell in pill bottles, and it's cheaper, too. I also think people should never turn down an opportunity to hold a baby. There's something about the feel of a new baby in your arms that just fixes you.

The ordinary can be like medicine.