I am sick of diseases, I want to know origins and processes…If we are to prevent disease it is to the beginning of the chain of accumulating stresses that we must look.

The use of thesis-writing is to train the mind, or to prove that the mind has been trained; the former purpose is, I trust, promoted, the evidences of the latter are scanty and occasional.

We are led to think of diseases as isolated disturbances in a healthy body, not as the phases of certain periods of bodily development.

Another source of fallacy is the vicious circle of illusions which consists on the one hand of believing what we see, and on the other in seeing what we believe.

It is steadily forgotten that health is a diathesis as much as is scrofula or syphilis and that each of these is a mode of growth.

Medicine, likewise, because it deals with things, has always been for our serener circles a Cinderella, blooming maid as happily as she has grown nevertheless.

I don't want to die without any scars.

Still enveloped in a blanket of dreams he (life) continued to lie still, pretended as if he was in a deep slumber.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

Perhaps you need to look back before you can move ahead.

The only use of knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.

I May Be Wrong but I Doubt It.

[Bob Fosse] was a temperamental fellow - it was his way or the highway.

Since the 1960s, there has been a tremendous expansion of the resources available to pay for health care.

The twin gods, Necessity and Chance, walked among the stars. What needed to be, was; what might be, sometimes was.

Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.