Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.

Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.

Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.

All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the Challenge of science is to find it.

Every physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his book, they will never mislead him.

Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.

The highest degree of a medicine is Love.

The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.

Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.

Fasting is the greatest remedy-- the physician within.

How will the performer-audience interaction change, now that we are so used to participating in the lives of strangers?

Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?

The goal of higher education should be to champion the airing of all honest viewpoints. Nothing less is acceptable.

Yes, Heaven is thine; but this Is a world of sweets and sours; Our flowers are merely—flowers.

If a man doesn't find ease in himself, 'tis in vain to seek it elsewhere.

I think there is a natural thing that you feel when you've written something taboo because you just don't want to expose the people you're close to.

When your parents split up, it's impossible to delude yourself about fairytale romance and happy endings.

Sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your decision persists by the power of inertia. Every year it gets harder to change.

I'd love to work with Disney again.

It had to be one of the weirdest things in the universe that Lissa had never come close to suspecting my feelings for Dimitri but that Adrian had figured it out.