“The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.”

I swear… to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.

Life is short, the art long.

Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)

The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.

Each of the substances of a man’s diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.

What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.

Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.

Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.

An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.

Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.

For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.

Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.

Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.

Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.

I’m in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.

What I find interesting is how close you can run the laughter along the seam of seriousness, and occasionally cross it, so that half the house genuinely doesn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

Because it’s bad enough not getting what you want, but it’s even worse to have an idea of what it is you want and find out at the end of the journey that it isn’t, in fact, what you wanted all along.

Discreetly, moving along the waterways and four seasons of the faithful sun.

The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.

I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.

I always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I’ll catch up.

Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.