I have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded.

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.

My heart broke and my mind opened, tragedy works in a funny way like that ~ what once tore me apart was actually what was setting my truth free.

I will overcome every obstruction.

There was no way to abandon guilt, no decent way to disown it. All the tangles and knots of bitterness and desperation and fear had to be pitied. No, better, grace had to fall over them.

Irish and English are so widely separated in their mode of expression that nothing like a literal rendering from one language to the other is possible.

I was the class clown at school, but at home, my family wasn't very funny.

The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.

It's a beautiful life, just as advertised.

Perhaps pure reason without heart would never have thought of God.

Art is, from any point of view, the greatest of risks.

I've been down in Florida since 1979. When you're born in Nebraska you really can't explain it.