The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

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.

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.

We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.

Sport is a preserver of health.

If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.

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