I had a series of childhood illnesses; scarlet fever, pneumonia, polio. I walked with braces until I was at least read more

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.

Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.

Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.

If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill.

If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill.

If hooking a car battery up to a monkey's brain will help find the cure for AIDS and save somebody's read more

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.

My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.

My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.

Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.

Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.

Sickness shows us what we are

Sickness shows us what we are

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through read more

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.

An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a read more

An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.