The mechanisms of vis medicatrix naturæ—the most healing power of nature—are so effective that most diseases are self-terminating.

Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.

To ward off disease or recover health, people as a rule find it easier to depend on healers than to attempt the more difficult task of living wisely.

Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back.

The very process of living is a continual interplay between the individual and his environment, often taking the form of a struggle resulting in injury or disease.

Sometimes the more measurable drives out the most important.

Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself.

It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.

There is an unbroken continuum from the wisdom of the body to the wisdom of the mind, from the wisdom of the individual to the wisdom of the race.

The word "wilderness" occurs approximately three hundred times in the Bible, and all its meanings are derogatory.

What happens in the mind of man is always reflected in the disease of his body.

Six a.m.!" Xander cried. "I know that's a number on my clock, but I've never actually been awake to personally witness it!

I just like music that sounds like music. Not like machines and computers and things that you design to make things sound slick and perfect.

I still don't know precisely why The Mickey Mouse Club ended when it did.

Every director is different, but the insights from new people on set give you a different opinion and perspective, which is always embraced, in some way.

The Lorax: Which way does a tree fall? The Once-ler: Uh, down? The Lorax: A tree falls the way it leans. Be careful which way you lean.

My hobbies have varied over the years. There were a whole set of new ones before I got married. Now I spend as much time with my wife, who is my best friend.

Not only is it a great concept and a great idea -- helping people -- it's good pizza too!

Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires.

You should be kissed everyday, every hour, every minute.

I never thought I was particularly talented, and to be honest with you, I still don't.