Width of life is more important than length of life.

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

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.

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

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Keep focus on the goal.

Your own opinion of your state is not worth much. Ask the Lord to search you.

I am one of those people, and I may be personally biased, who wishes that I had some place to come out of the closet besides a bar.

If Jesus was hung, would we pray to a rope?

I love root vegetables: carrots, parsnips, and turnips.

You must learn to question everything. To wait before moving, to look before stepping, and to observe everything

The more we can have peaceful trade both with Russia, with China, and with others, you know, there's a self interest in this for everyone.

What I learned: Shun nonbelievers. Ignore critics. Do your best for people who want to dance with you.

The external view [of agency] forces itself on us at the same time that we resist it. One way this occurs is through the gradual erosion of what we do by the subtraction of what happens.