I typically go for a more classic aesthetic, though I like to contrast that with bold statement pieces throughout my house.
Read Don Quixote; it is a very good book; I still read it frequently.
Acute [diseases] meaning those of which God is the author, chronic meaning those that originate in ourselves.
The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than twenty asses laden with drugs.
Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.
I confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout, have died of the medicine rather than the disease - a statement in which I am supported by observation.
A man is as old as his arteries.
It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.
Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing something.
That's one of the reasons I moved to Florida. Of course, the main reason is the weather and the training. But there's more jealousy in Switzerland because it's so little and they don't have so many athletes.
Breathing involves a continual oscillation between exhaling and inhaling, offering ourselves to the world at one moment and drawing the world into ourselves at the next.