The ancestor of every destructive action, every destructive decision, is a negative thought.
O sleep, O gentle sleep, I thought gratefully, Nature's gentle nurse.
It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
He who angers you conquers you.
Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.
I was wholly unprepared for the extraordinary attitude of the medical world in its readiness to condemn anything that smacked of reform or that ran contrary to approved methods of practice.
A measure of victory has been won, and honors have been bestowed in token thereof. But honours fade or are forgotten, and monuments crumble into dust. It is the battle itself that matters - and the battle must go on.
I eat right and ensure that I burn it all by working out equally as much as I eat.
There are hundreds of thousands of microbes surrounding us, but they cannot harm us unless we become weak, until the body is ready and predisposed to receive them.
As I travel around the world, it's fascinating; European leaders, Asian leaders, they all say to me, America is actually poised to be the world leader for another century - if we can fix some of this political dysfunction. . . . We've got a lot of national security challenges, but if we get our economy together, and if we can get our political system to work well, I am really confident about our future.
Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit!