If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill.

First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

A doctor gave a man six months to live. The man couldn't pay his bill so he gave him another six months.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.

The miserable have no other medicine, but only hope.

My son complains about headaches. I tell him all the time when you get out of bed it's feet first!

I'm so mean, I make medicine sick.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Each year millions of skiers come to Colorado to experience its superb emergency medical facilities.

Water, air and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.

I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?

Acting is the best medicine in the world - if you're not feeling well it goes away because you are busy thinking about something that isn't yourself. We actors are very fortunate people.

And I'm going to work as hard as I can... for cancer research and hopefully, maybe, we'll have some cures and some breakthroughs. I'd like to think I'm going to fight my brains out to be back here again next year for the Arthur Ashe recipient. I want to give it next year!

America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks.

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same but the medical practice changes.

Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.