The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.

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.

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

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.

There are three paradoxes of the Christian life: You must give in order to receive, you must let go in order to possess, and you must die in order to live.

Believe in yourself, take a bet on yourself. If you don't, then who will?

You get growth in the United States, the rest of the world will grow.

I have a picture I keep in my wallet of my father's corpse... I keep that picture in my wallet to show people who show me baby pictures.

Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal.

As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl. [Fr., Honteux comme un renard qu'une poule aurait pris.]

I really am guilty, of many somethings, all of them lethal and very enjoyable and technically not quite legal.

On the way, I shared the backseat of Feyerabend's little sports car with the inflatable raft he kept there in case an 8-point earthquake came while he was on the Bay Bridge.

Truth is not by nature free - nor error servile - but that its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power.

If you think about America, it is about getting your backpack on and heading out.