A certain excessiveness seems a necessary element in all greatness.

A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world.

Standardization of our educational systems [which includes testing]is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.

Nothing great or new can be done without enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the fly-wheel which carries your saw through the knots in the log.

I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for the operative part is the least part of the work.

There is only one ultimate and effectual preventative for the maladies to which flesh is heir, and that is death.

Of course, some might argue that one can never know what's in the heart of a woman— For they are strange and mysterious creatures, and a man must be a mind reader if he ever wishes to make them happy.

To flee from sin is to retain heaven on earth

Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.

If you think your work is ultimately about a paycheck, then that will affect the quality of your work as well as the quality of your own life.

Offer a vibration that matches your desire rather than offering a vibration that keeps matching what-is.

Bravura has nothing to do with technique. It's all about timing and oozing life.

Discipline is the only sure way I know to convince people to believe in themselves

Love doesn't limit itself to relationships: it is a celebration of life.

The most life destroying word of all is the word tomorrow.

The way to get ahead is to start now. If you start now, you will know a lot next year that you don't know now and that you would not have known next year if you had waited.