In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.

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.

Folly, like its consequences, is dreadful.Wisdom, like its rewards, is great.

One good deed is more worth than a thousand brilliant theories. Let us not wait for large opportunities, or for a different kind of work, but do just the things we "find to do" day by day.

I stopped paying the price for success and started enjoying the price for success.

Gladly accept the gifts of the present hour.

No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.

Fate pulls you in different directions

Why don't you make your whole body into a string and play the music of the vibratory electromagnetic self, which is your creativity, and project to the heart of another person?

I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art.

I feel so lucky to have done so many things that I love in the past few years so I'm just going to keep trying to do them.

Just because someone acts a certain way on TV, that doesn't mean he's like that in real life.