The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.

Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.

Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.

All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the Challenge of science is to find it.

Every physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his book, they will never mislead him.

Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.

The highest degree of a medicine is Love.

The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.

Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.

Fasting is the greatest remedy-- the physician within.

If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.

Even the best-laid plans turn to hell when exposed to reality.

It is better to die than carry the burden of expectations, you die every moment then, bearing situations you are not supposed to put up with.

I'll talk. You'll listen.

Eavesdropping is such a regular-person activity.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

God acts in history: that is, God provides ideas, methods, and experiences intended to bring comprehension to man, an understanding heart, a conscious life.

The most important thing, the thing that unites all of us, is that we can INSPIRE and CHALLENGE one another TO BE BETTER.

If you want to see eccentricities, I'll be grotesque before your eyes.

I'm about to make people forget about Madonna.

The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.