Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

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.

A picture should capture a moment, a place in time you can return to again and again.

Cheap things are real. Cheap things are accessible. Cheap things are made for us because we don’t have any money, and even though we’d like to think we’ll have it someday, we know we don’t now.

When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.

Everything has changed, except our way of thinking.

Patience to faith is like the head to the body. The person who has no patience has not faith.

Part of me is probably more conservative than people realise. I like my old string quartets, I don't like music that's trippy for trippy's sake.

If you go back to the roots of jazz, it was all about COLLECTIVE improvisation.

The cow is the purest type of sub-human life.

I hear nothings, I speak nothings, I take interest in nothing and from nothing to nothing I travel gently down the dull way which leads to becoming nothing.

I'd love to go somewhere warm, somewhere near the beach and somewhere with a cool culture. It could be Hawaii, Cuba, South America - anywhere that has a cool culture and a beautiful climate.