Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.

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.

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

A heart consumed by bitterness turns to stone.

Blood is power, and the heart consumed of one much loved is the most powerful thing of all. After all, what is love if you keep your heart?

Workaholics are energized rather than enervated by their work-their energy paradoxically expands as it is expended.

My clothes are great for a honeymoon: They're light and sexy, colorful and pretty, and not expensive.

You can't make people be or do what you want. All you can do is be unapologetic about what you want and let others show up however they can.

I certainly don't advocate terrorism as a way of progressing and understanding people, nor do I believe labeling everything as a terrorist act is helpful either.

Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue.

Frenchmen are like gunpowder, each by itself smutty and contemptible, but mass them together and they are terrible indeed!

Love can achieve unexpected majesty in the rocky soil of misfortune.