“Consciousness, to be sure, is more effective than packets of medicine.”
Her final comment on her experience of getting out of the epidemic, quoted in "Japan" (1916-20)
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Entertainment Weekly interview http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20006490,00.html (4 January 2007)
Context: I would say laughter is the best medicine. But it’s more than that. It’s an entire regime of antibiotics and steroids. Laughter brings the swelling down on our national psyche, and then applies an antibiotic cream... Obviously, it’s a challenge to make light of the darkness but, um, it’s better than crying about it.

Speech to Conservative Party Conference (20 October 1967) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101586
Backbench MP

“Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.”
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“Consciousness is much more of the implicate order than is matter”
Statement of 1987, as quoted in Towards a Theory of Transpersonal Decision-Making in Human-Systems (2007) by Joseph Riggio, p. 66
Context: Consciousness is much more of the implicate order than is matter... Yet at a deeper level [matter and consciousness] are actually inseparable and interwoven, just as in the computer game the player and the screen are united by participation.

Die Fackel no. 445/53 (18 January 1917)
Die Fackel

“Kindness effects more than severity.”
Plus fait douceur que violence.
Book VI (1678-1679), fable 3.
Fables (1668–1679)
Section 4.14
The Crosswicks Journal, A Circle of Quiet (1972)