Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul.

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.

As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.

Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues.

But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with.

We love purely when we release other people to be who they are.

I'm here with Howard Millar and Michael Cawley, our two deputy chief executives. But they're presently making love in the gentleman's toilets, such is their excitement at today's results.

I can get away before the storm hits. Away from a world in which opiates have become the religion of the masses.

I always take the same perspective with each new adventure. I put myself in the position of being at the end of my life looking back. Then I ask myself if what I am doing is important to me.

It is the first purpose of hope to make hopelessness bearable.

For a beggar to live at court is not so much as the King to dwell with him in his cottage.

That's how it is with the English: if you score against them you're a good player; if you don't, you're not.