All drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage.

Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.

Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.

All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the Challenge of science is to find it.

Every physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his book, they will never mislead him.

Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.

The highest degree of a medicine is Love.

The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.

Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.

Fasting is the greatest remedy-- the physician within.

I couldn't make any sense of this logic, that the better off got more and those had little got less. The world ran on this law and only on this.

You're a song written by the hands of God.

There has never been anything but the Self. There is no world, there is no time, there is no place, there is no condition. There is nothing and there can be nothing else.

Phillip is the Paul McCartney of our family: better-looking than the rest of us, always facing a different direction in pictures, and occasionally rumored to be dead.

When you get to play a character that's in love, it's cool. Once you have love as a motivator in a story, your character is free to do anything.

He that condescended so far, and stooped so low, to invite and bring us to heaven, will not refuse us a gracious reception there.

The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think.

I obtained a job at the Library of Congress. I loved books, so I felt at home. I was going to end up, I thought, majoring in English and teach at the college level.