Good Words to Live By

Good Words to Live By

 

17 Feb 2025

In Gifford-Jones’ earlier book, “90+ How I Got There“, were these words, “I’m often asked whether I would now change my views. This question refers to the many controversial medical issues I’ve tackled. At times they made life difficult for me and my family. But in retrospect, avoidance would have been hard to do. The safe route would have been hypocritical. Some issues were too important to pass over and I have neve been a fence-sitter. So I agree with the Periclean dictum, “In Athens we think that silent men are useless.” In Hamlet, Polonius echoed the message in clear terms, “To thine own self be true.”