All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poison.

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.

Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.

Outside the street's on fire in a real death waltz between what's flesh and what's fantasy.

I love being directed. Because it's another thought, it's another fresh idea. You're so grateful for an original idea that you haven't had.

You can hardly open a newspaper without seeing that a woman has been killed by a man for clearly gender-related reasons.

Some people get up in the morning, don't go to the gym, they go take a shower. Well, I go to the gym, and I get a shower too.

Prodigious actions may as well be done, by weaver's issue, as the prince's son.

I knew one hundred little things about Noah Shaw but when he kissed me I couldn't remember my own name.

In law school they teach you that everything is a contract; well, in poetry everything is a narrative.

The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening.