Today all patients accepted for treatment at St. Jude's are treated without regard for the family's ability to pay. Everything beyond what is covered by insurance is taken care of and for those without insurance all of the medical costs are absorbed by the hospital.
I first wanted to be a psychiatrist. I decided against that in medical school when I discovered that psychiatrists didn't in reality do what they did on TV.
But I contend that if we're providing total medical coverage for every man woman and child in Iraq shouldn't we at least be doing the same thing for every man woman and child in the United States?
Mammograms are really sort of a gift. You can either catch something early or count your lucky stars because nothing was discovered. Either way you're ahead of the game.
Brands mature over time like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
Unfenced by law the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you - the legally married person who wants to escape doomed love - may soon discover that a significant portion of your marriage contract belongs to the State and that it sometimes takes a very long while for the State to grant you your leave.
There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.
From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.
Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others and the delight in the recognition.
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth the delight the ecstasy of it you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
We must declare ourselves become known allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love but the emotion itself.
It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end nor protects it from the bites of insects.
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble there lies your treasure.
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
Kindness I've discovered is everything in life.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul the director of his life.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately to front only the essential facts of life and see if I could not learn what it had to teach and not when I came to die discover that I had not lived.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.