The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given "disease." The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.

The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.

To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy meals

What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health.

The building of a perfect body crowned by a perfect brain, is at once the greatest earthly problem and grandest hope of the race.

One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: "Have no anxiety about the morrow"; or the words of Sir William Osler; "Live in day-tight compartments.

The healthy, the strong individual, is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has an abscess on his knee or in his soul.

If we miraculously became the people we hate, how lovable we would find ourselves.