Leeches should be kept a day before applying them. They should be squeezed to make them eject the contents of their stomachs.

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.

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

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.

I like roundtables because you can talk more directly to people. And you also can get kind of a vibe on what a journalist's take is on something, and have a conversation with them more.

As the Senator from Vermont was kind enough to note, I did have the experience of being commander in chief of our National Guard in Missouri for 8 years.

My wife will tell you that if you feel my hands before I walk on for a performance, you could chill a bottle of wine.

I'm not a model, so the idea of modelling a suit or clothes is weird in itself.

She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant; I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.

I really do like working very closely with a director and developing characters.

You're probably the most boring teenager in the world.

[I like] Die Hard and Paul Verhoeven movies. S - t like that.

I simply adore 'The Simpsons.' I go to bed in a 'Simpsons' T-shirt.

I've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla.