He who has two cakes of bread, let him dispose of one of them for some flowers of the narcissus; for bread is the food of the body, and the narcissus is the food of the soul.

You only get one sunrise and one sunset a day, and you only get so many days on the planet. A good photographer does the math and doesn't waste either.

Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness.

All who drink of this remedy recover in a short time except those whom it does not help, who all die.

Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!

The physician is only nature's assistant.

Look to the nervous system as the key to maximum health.

Confidence and hope do more good than physic.

The best physician is also a philosopher.

Who Are You? What do you want? Where Are You Going? Who do you serve and who do you trust?

If sometimes dreams come true, what of our nightmares?

For a great life a road map of life is more important than the journey itself.

It is important to create a family and bring up a child: these things are good and even necessary

I think of the quietness of Julian’s voice as he said I love you, the steadiness of his rib cage rising and falling against my back, as we sleep.I love you, Julian. But the words don’t come.

History within itself cannot be transcended. ... In history itself there are only relative victories.

As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this.

Faith does not operate in the realm of the possible. There is no glory for God in that which is humanly possible. Faith begins where man's power ends.

I was a young troubadour when I rode in on a song. And, I'll be an old troubadour when I'm gone.

Mediocrity is always invisible until passion shows up and exposes it.

All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy.

It's still possible to be a cockeyed optimist these days - you just have to be a little more cockeyed.