The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the 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 always loved comedy, but it never seemed like something that I could do professionally.

Write about this man who, drop by drop, squeezes the slave's blood out of himself until he wakes one day to find the blood of a real human being--not a slave's--coursing through his veins.

A person will not buy from you until he is convinced that you are a friend and are acting in his best interest. You must make this clear.

To become a man was something, but to become a man of sorrows was far more; to bleed, and die, and suffer.

True art is the intermediary between man's ordinary nature and his higher potentialities.

To shelter and to hide, they have resigned themselves.

All art at some time and in some manner becomes mass entertainment, and if it does not it dies and is forgotten.

Early days, I was a bit racked , particularly when I did Hitler, for CBS . That was hellish. That stayed with me for quite a long time.

I wasn't cocky, just confident; I went to an all black school, a white kid.

You used to feed a piece of celluloid into an editor. [Digital] is not expensive and that is an advantage, but I must say that I don't love it.