“Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.”

Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.

Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears.

Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.

I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.

All disease starts in the gut.

Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure

Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.

The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.

It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.

If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.

That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.

Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.

The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it

Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.