About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it

Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.

If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.

All disease starts in the gut.

Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.

It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.

If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.

Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.

The physician treats, but nature heals.

Openness to change is key to implementing new knowledge. That is why one who is indifferent to change is not a friend of knowledge.

I refuse to lie to children. I refuse to cater to the bullshit of innocence.

Those of us who are brave enough to venture out, find so many things that we never knew within.

The shock of recognition is a moment of excitement that shakes the soul. It may be hard to describe, but like other forms of love, you will know it when you feel it

What we think and what we eat, combined together, make what we are, physically and mentally.

I admire tremendously those people who work consistently at the same jobs.

We made music seated on the grass of Brasilia's super-squares, at home, at college. It was a creative time, more ingenuous, when the people amused more themselves, played more.

From a hundred cultures, [there is] one culture which does what no culture has ever done before-gives a place to every human gift.

I think outdoors has been my second home. My parents wouldn't be like, "Go and do a puzzle," they'd be like, "Hey, there's a forest across the street. You need to go play in it."

There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love, as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning.