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

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.

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.

My politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation.

You don't build a family by tearing down another one.

On Staten Island, there's a ship graveyard. I'm using that a lot, even for 'Under the Dome.' When I'm dissatisfied with a location scout, I go on Google Earth. It's an amazing tool.

I think friends are an extension of you and I always say, check out a persons five immediate friends and you'll know everything about them.

We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.

Bruce Lee, before he fought, he would try to visualize how the fight would go, because he was visualizing a victorious path out of the combat.

You might be a redneck if your wife wants to stop at the gas station to see if they've got the new Darrell Waltrip Budweiser wall clock.

A good rule of thumb is to assume that everything matters.

If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.

The time when there is no one there to feel sorry for you or to cheer for you is when a player is made.

In the end, one or the other will triumph - a funeral dirge will be sung over the Soviet republic or over world capitalism.