The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources-spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical.
Norman Cousins
A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.
Hippocrates
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
If hooking a car battery up to a monkey`s brain will help find the cure for AIDS and save somebody`s life, I have two things to say... the red is positive and the black is negative.
Nick DiPaolo
I had a series of childhood illnesses; scarlet fever, pneumonia, polio. I walked with braces until I was at least nine years old. My life wasn`t like the average person who grew up and decided to enter the world of sports.
Wilma Rudolph