I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.

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.

Writing the middle of a novel is a lot like driving through Texas. You think it's never going to end, and the scenery looks the same.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

I spend most of my time in a room alone where eight hours go by, and I have no sense of time. I work seven days a week, and I live in this sort of vague subconscious fog a lot.

I make up new lyrics to well-known lullabies. Mostly because I don't actually know a lot of the lyrics.

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.

To yield reverence to another, to hold ourselves and our lives at his disposal, is not slavery; often, it is the noblest state in which a man can live in this world.

there are many hours and minutes between now and tomorrowand in any one of them-even in a minute,the house falls

I'd rather live precariously in my own office than comfortably in somebody else's.

Why should I ? I don't need to run down my opponent through filthy language in order to win. The voters don't expect this from their representatives.

The lead either forges an instant connection with the reader, or the package fails.