“Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of h...” — Arthur Murphy Quote

Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health.

The people of England are never so happy as when you tell them they are ruined.

Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.

Thus far we run before the wind.

Left to ourselves, we might pick the wrong health insurance, the wrong mortgage, the wrong school for our kids; why, unless they stop us, we might pick the wrong light bulb.

President Obama famously promised that the Affordable Care Act would not only slow the growth in health care costs, but would also reverse these trends, making the average health insurance plan cheaper. That isn't happening.

There's no one place a virus goes to die - but that doesn't make its demise any less a public health victory. Throughout human history, viral diseases have had their way with us, and for just as long, we have hunted them down and done our best to wipe them out.

I do not want medical men to discuss whether or not my work is valuable, because I know what it will do. I want them to tell me how best this new knowledge of rapidly restoring paralysed people to health and strength can be applied where it is needed.