Some Thoughts on Health...

The best six doctors anywhere

And no one can deny it

Are sunshine, water, rest, and air

Exercise and diet.

These six will gladly you attend

If only you are willing

Your mind they'll ease

Your will they'll mend

And charge you not a shilling.

~Nursery rhyme quoted by Wayne Fields, What the River Knows, 1990

Mens sana in corpore sano.

(Your prayer must be for a sound mind in a sound body.)

~Juvenal (First or second century AD)

Just because you're not sick doesn't mean you're healthy.

~Author Unknown

The patient should be made to understand that he or she must take charge of his own life. Don't take your body to the doctor as if he were a repair shop.

- Quentin Regestein (Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard)