Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.

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.

We criticize and separate ourselves from the process. We've got to jump right in there with both feet.

As a woman, you spend so much time either cooking or getting ready to go somewhere. I like to have music when I'm doing either of these things.

I believe you can take all experiences and use them as knowledge and fuel to be a better person.

The thing I'm the most proud of in my personal life is that my daughter actually thinks that I'm fabulous.

It's dead easy to die; it's the keeping on living that's hard.

It seems strange to make a priori arguments about the relative performance of governments and the markets in health care when there is so much empirical evidence.

My real achievement is my daughter and my three beautiful grandchildren.

I knew from a very early age, that what I saw on tv had nothing to do with real life. So I wanted to make a record of real life. That included having a camera with me at all times.

It is not our circumstances that create our discontent or contentment. It is us.

We like to buy stocks which we feel are undervalued and then we have to have the guts to buy more when they go down.