Heard and Read

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."

-Helen Keller, Optimism

"Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul."

-Alice James, diary entry (1892)

"It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive."

-W. Somerset Maugham, English author

The Moon and the Sixpence (1919)

"Most arthritis patients do not need laboratory exams…you just get their clinical data and you have a diagnosis."

-Dr. Sandra Navarra, Rheumatologist

University of Santo Tomas Hospital

"Migraine equivalents are difficult to define. There is even a controversy as to whether they exist independently or are truly part of the migraine mainly because of the absence of headache."

-Dr. Darwin Dasig, professor in physiology and neurosciences

University of the Philippines College of Medicine

"You may claim that tobacco is not as dangerous as cocaine. Not true. Make no mistake: tobacco is a drug. And it kills."

-Dr. Shigeru Omi

Director, World Health Organization-Western Pacific Region