Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

Listen to your patient, he is telling you the diagnosis.

The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine.

Gentlemen, I have a confession to make. Half of what we have taught you is in error, and furthermore we cannot tell you which half it is

The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head.

No man is really happy or safe without a hobby.

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.

I Am In Love With Myself, With My Heart.

It is faith, and not reason, which impels men to action... Intelligence is content to point out the road, but never drives us along it.

As far as I’m concerned, this is the worst thing that’s happened since I found out why Magnus was banned from Peru.

I grew to manhood in the Ohio State Penitentiary.

The Most Blessed Sacrament is Christ made visible. The poor sick person is Christ again made visible.

A certain excessiveness seems a necessary element in all greatness.

If you want to keep alive in the jungle, you must live as the jungle does.

Nothing is more rewarding than to take a song, create it out of thin air and then watch it affect people.

When people are mean to you, win them over with kindness. If it doesn't work, you still win.

Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil struggling to crush a small kernel of human kindness.