Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.

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.

I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour, but heaven knows I'm miserable now.

Allow yourself to be possessed by God by receiving Jesus, and you will never be possessed by anything else.

No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.

A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today.

I was not born to amuse the Tsars.

I came to the United States in 1981 as a student.When I left, I was totally the most beloved little flower in China and so it was an outrage basically.

Going into politics is something people have asked me about forever.

I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.

It is not enough that our life is an easy one. We must live on the stretch, retiring to our rest like soldiers on the eve of a battle, looking forward to the strenuous sortie of the morrow.

Superstition is part of the poetry of life.