“First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.”

All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.

Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.

A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.

Divine is the task to relieve pain

Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.

Sometimes give your services for nothing.

Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.

Walking is man’s best medicine.

Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.

And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose.

Walking is a man’s best medicine.

The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.

There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.

The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.

Look to the seasons when choosing your cures

The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.

There won’t be any hearsay. There won’t be any expert analysis from anybody else. It will be the real deal.

I want to be respected as a guy who knows what he’s talking about. And that, to me, holds more weight than anything else.

I want them to be good people, so good people will treat them accordingly. I preach that to my kids and everything else falls into place.

Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.

Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.

You know you’re getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you’re down there.

I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.

I don’t control what people say. I don’t control what people put on dot-com or anything else.