When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.

There have been some good studies done in California with Hispanic parents where in the course of a year, they have changed their entire nutritional intake for the better. The kid becomes, in a sense, the bridge between the educational process and the home.

Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.

When a faith-healer commands God to perform a miracle, in the absence of a prayer that says, 'Thy will be done,' it is, as far as I am concerned, the most rank form of arrogance . . . The faith-healer Bosworth once said that faith makes God act. If you follow that line of reasoning God is in His heaven, but Bosworth rules the world!

Your choice of diet can influence your long term health prospects more than any other action you might take.

Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation

Make your kids go out and play. Kids ought to grow up the way you and I grew up and we grew up fifty years apart or maybe more. But we did the same things. Now who's out playing in the afternoon? Nobody.

The right of smokers to smoke ends where their behavior affects the health and well-being of others.

Health care is vital to all of us some of the time, but public health is vital to all of us all of the time

Drugs don't work in patients who don't take them.

The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.

If you want to say how can we step into childhood and make it better for them, I would start at the activity level. I'd like to say let your kids go out and play.

There are many stressed single parents who may be working two jobs in order to keep the family together.

Cigarette smoking is clearly identified as the chief, preventable cause of death in our society.

There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.

I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a doctor. The doctors I knew as a very young child must have helped to plant the desire in me, when I was as young as five or six. One homeopathic physician, Dr. Justice Gage Wright, was a great model.

The baby's life is never willfully destroyed because the mother's life is in danger.

Dr. Lourie's determined and compassionate advocacy led to new and improved services for thousands of children and families across the nation... the Lourie Center has rededicated itself institutionally to continuing his important work.