War is the only proper school of the surgeon.

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.

For those who were born lovers, falling in love is not neither an option nor a decision. it is a matter of existence.

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.

It occurred to Gavin that the first thought a groom had upon spying his bride shouldn’t be to wonder whether or not she wore knickers.

In other words, the more stupid one is, the more he thinks he knows.

Love and kindness are the very basis of society. If we lose these feelings, society will face tremendous difficulties; the survival of humanity will be endangered.

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

We must discover how to ask simple questions of ourselves.

Music gives the soul this inner self-expression, a voice. It gives the soul a sound, the sound of the Muse.

I'd like to live in a world where people embrace objective truths rather than be offended by them.

I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books and read a paragraph and say, 'My God, did I write that?