Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day absorb all your interest, energy and enthusiasm. The best preparation for tomorrow is to live today superbly well.

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.

A SWOT analysis involves asking, "What are our strengths and weaknesses? What are our opportunities? What are the threats?

You are a soldier. A fighter. And now you must fight. Not for the emperor, not for France . . . but for yourself.

The future bears down upon each one of us with all the hazards of the unknown. The only way out is through.

Rarely has a people paid the lavish compliment and taken the subtle revenge of turning its oppressor's speech into sorcery.

I feel absolutely sorry for the person who can't genuinely get excited about his or her work.

I must go down to the seas again to find where I buried the hatchet with Yesterday.

For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.

Don't be afraid of the darkness; just carry a light with you!

I'm happy out of my mind. I like beating a lot of people.

We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.