Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine, and war; of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is fever.

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.

What we long for, we shall possess.

A good example is the best gift you can offer to your children. In your absence, your example is present, which means you are present always!

Trusting is hard. Knowing who to trust, even harder.

One of the great joys of traveling through Italy is discovering firsthand that it is, indeed, a dream destination.

I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell.

Being in the wrong place never helps you do the right thing

On a daily basis, you must take more care of your mind than just money, money, money!

Whereas I think in New York every step is a detour in every direction.

A journalist's peculiar function is to read the mind of the country and to give definite and fearless expression to that mind.

I don't know anything about this engagement stuff. I never thought I was going to get engaged.