"I have lost my mental faculties but..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The conservative assumes sickness as a necessity, and his social frame is a hospital, his total legislation is for the present distress, a universe in slippers and flannels, with bib and papspoon, swallowing pills and herb-tea.”

“Thoughts rule the world.”

“We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.”

“I found solitary confinement the most forbidding aspect of prison life. There is no end and no beginning; there is only one's mind, which can begin to play tricks. Was that a dream or did it really happen? One begins to question everything.”

“The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not — which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making him responsible for his dreams.”

“Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly ofthe storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.”

“I'm 43 years old and I'm the healthiest candidate for the Presidency of the United States. You've travelled with me enough to know that I'm not going to die in office.”

“Creative energy is the essence of all healing...We physicians do nothing, we only help and encourage the physician within.”

“I try and stay limber, swim, run, ride motorcycles.”