If we would serve science, we must extend her limits, not only as far as our own knowledge is concerned, but in the estimation of others.

Medical education does not exist to provide students with a way of making a living, but to ensure the health of the community.

The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them.

Between animal and human medicine, there is no dividing line-nor should there be.

The body is a cell state in which every cell is a citizen. Disease is merely the conflict of the citizens of the state brought about by the action of external forces.

Only those who regard healing as the ultimate goal of their efforts can, therefore, be designated as physicians.

It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation.

Body: A cell state in which every cell is a citizen.

Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.

Medical statistics will be our standard of measurement: we will weigh life for life and see where the dead lie thicker, among the workers or among the privileged.

If popular medicine gave the people wisdom as well as knowledge, it would be the best protection for scientific and well-trained physicians.

... even though we belong to three different religions. We are alike in so many more ways than we are different.

Nothing fills the world quite as poetry does. A poet need not dwell on the pagecount of his life.

Identity is invariably false to facts.

Perhaps it is while drinking tea that I most of all enjoy the sense of leisure.

Living in Dallas, I root for the Mavericks and the Stars and the Cowboys, but I've always pulled for the Chicago Cubs. I enjoy watching them play.

China is in its own category - too big to ignore, too repressive to embrace, difficult to influence, and very, very proud.

When I came out to Hollywood, I discovered the perfect place for my creative madness - Cannon Pictures.

Stunted varieties were generally chosen, particularly if they had the side branches opposite or regular, for much depends upon this; a one-sided tree is of no value in the eyes of the Chinese.

My weakness is dark chocolate. I carry little tins of it in my purse.

Peace purchased at the cost of any part of our national integrity is fit only for slaves, and even when purchased for such a price it is a delusion, for it cannot last.