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

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.

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.

There are three classes of human beings: men, women and women physicians.

You see how I tryTo reach with wordsWhat matters mostAnd how I fail.

Life is magical for a lover.

If necessity is the mother of invention, then dissatisfaction must be its father.

Except on their southern borders the great northern forests are not good as a permanent home for man.

Nobody thinks that there were never mechanical horses in the world. Everybody knows that there aren't really golems.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

You and I more than anyone else in the universe are perfect for each other.

Wouldn't it be a beautiful world if just 10 percent of the people who believe in the power of love would compete with one another to see who could do the most good for the most people?

Visible things can be invisible. However, our powers of thought grasp both the visible and the invisible – and I make use of painting to render thoughts visible.

I learned hard lessons, and I've taken that lesson and it's helped me become a better business person and a better leader.