I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length.

There are no incurable diseases — only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs — only the lack of knowledge.

Width of life is more important than length of life.

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.

Is it the fault of wine if a fool drinks it and goes stumbling into darkness?

An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death.

The more brilliant the lightning, the quicker it disappears.

Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health.

The different sorts of madness are innumerable.

In God alone, essence (what He is) and existence (that he is) coincide.

When you take a photo, you often take your own reality into your camera - the reality that you shaped in your mind - and not the real reality over there, whatever it is!

The day of birth is day of life.

I can't tell if the world is worse now or if we just have more cameras. There are cameras everywhere, so now the world knows how bad the world is.

I will veto every single beer, um, bill with earmarks.

Vegetarian is the New Prius!

A lot of my songs deal with spirituality and God, and I guess if you're in tune with that, you'll read into it.

At all times it is better to have a method.

Of all the creatures on this planet none is more dangerous than a human being.

When liberals are behind something, I'm automatically suspicious.

For, so long as there are interesting books to read, it seems to me that neither I nor anyone else, for that matter, need be unhappy.