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

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.

The different sorts of madness are innumerable.

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

It was like waking from a nightmare to a worse nightmare.

Never settle in any circle that is not fully committed to forever walk in the direction of endless opportunities and possibilities.

There comes a point where you have to stop trying to repair yourself and accept the fact that you're broken.

Change is inevitable, continuous, and constant. Expectations of anything or anyone remaining the same can only lead to struggles and hardships. Willing Change

I'm a writer. I write checks. They're not very good.

Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.

I have a strong belief that there is a god or a higher power. I think that if you have a strong belief in that, then you won’t feel alone in life and you will feel you can get through anything.

I just came to West Ham to play football, the rest is not for me to say.

Achievers don't submit to instant gratification; they INVEST in the LONG-TERM payoff

Now a movie goes out to two, three thousand theaters and by Friday night at 10 o'clock they know if you are in or out. That desperate competition is, I think, horrendous. It's awful.