All knowledge attains its ethical value and its human significance only by the human sense with which it is employed. Only a good man can be a great physician.

Respect all people as you do your people, and you would be a fine people.

When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time

Everyday hundreds of people came to the hospital... dying, and I have to introduce life into them again... my duty was to compete with death.

The pyramids are one of those things that live up to the hype. They're elemental in ways that are hard to describe.

The function of an ideal is not to be realized but, like that of the North Star, to serve as a guiding point.

'Godfather' was very classical, the way it was shot, the style, the whole driving force of it was more classical, almost Shakespearean.

All that ever holds somebody back, I think, is fear. For a minute I had fear. [Then] I went into the [dressing] room and shot my fear in the face.

The remedy for the abuse of free speech is more speech.

Humanity is composed but of two categories, the invalids and the nurses

I have decided to tell the world that I accept my homosexuality and celebrate this gift that life has given me.