If people are constantly falling off a cliff, you could place ambulances under the cliff or build a fence on the top of the cliff. We are placing all too many ambulances under the cliff.

It is better to read a little and ponder a lot than to read a lot and ponder a little.

Diseases can rarely be eliminated through early diagnosis or good treatment, but prevention can eliminate disease.

The only way we are going to reduce disease, is to go backward to the diets and lifestyles of our ancestors.

Societies that eat unrefined foods produce large stools and build small hospitals; societies that eat fiber-depleted foods produce small stools and build large hospitals.

America is a constipated nation.... If you pass small stools, you have to have large hospitals.

The frying pan you should give to your enemy. Food should not be prepared in fat. Our bodies are adapted to a stone age diet of roots and vegetables.

One picture is worth a thousand words. Yes, but only if you look at the picture and say or think the thousand words

Generosity with strings is not generosity: it is a deal.

I've always worn a hat when I work. I think it also comes from a picture of Rothko I saw with a painter's hat on.

The world today doesn't please me.

I was born to speak. I got in trouble as a kid for talking. I already knew it was a strength.

The gods want to bring a better day, and you are their messengers. Trust not in all you see. Trust only in your hearts. And in us, who love you both.

Complacency will be the architecture of your downfall.

Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.

There is much to be said for exotic marriages. If your husband is a bore, it takes years longer to discover.

Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction.