A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. – Herm Albright, quoted in Reader’s Digest, June 1995

‘Tis not always in a physician’s power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art. – Ovid

We “need” cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer. – Gilbert Adair, “Under the Sign of Cancer,” Myths and Memories, 1986

Confidence and hope do more good than physic. – Galen