The use of thesis-writing is to train the mind, or to prove that the mind has been trained; the former purpose is, I trust, promoted, the evidences of the latter are scanty and occasional.

I am sick of diseases, I want to know origins and processes…If we are to prevent disease it is to the beginning of the chain of accumulating stresses that we must look.

We are led to think of diseases as isolated disturbances in a healthy body, not as the phases of certain periods of bodily development.

Another source of fallacy is the vicious circle of illusions which consists on the one hand of believing what we see, and on the other in seeing what we believe.

It is steadily forgotten that health is a diathesis as much as is scrofula or syphilis and that each of these is a mode of growth.

Medicine, likewise, because it deals with things, has always been for our serener circles a Cinderella, blooming maid as happily as she has grown nevertheless.

I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor.

Hope is a fertile soil where flowers blossoms.

I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me from going completely gonzo.

To rush to throw away your magazine business and move it on the iPad is just sheer insanity and insecurity and fear.

One thing I am sure of is that I won't judge a dance reality show.

I always compare reading anything on the Internet to listening at doors. If you don't want to hear anything bad about yourself, you should never do it.

To fly we have to have resistance.

John Kerry couldn't even order a Philly cheesesteak properly.

Must swear off from swearing. Bad habit.