Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me.

Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.

Medical education is not just a program for building knowledge and skills in its recipients... it is also an experience which creates attitudes and expectations.

A patient had a 50-50 chance of benefiting from visiting a physician as of 1910. Medicine was more like voodoo than science until the 20th Century.

The real enemy is the man who tries to mold the human spirit so that it will not dare to spread its wings.

There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.

The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.

The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.

We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.

You have had your last bad meal. But, you have also heard your last honest compliment, and you have lost your last true friend.

The more open we are, the more we can learn. The more we learn, the more we recognize that every one of us is a hero

Loneliness doesn't come from missing someone it comes from being disconnected with yourself.

I walk on my sacred path.

(...) like he left a piece of himself with youand you are terrifiedhe is coming back for it.Or he left a piece of himself with you and you are terrified he is not coming back for it.

With comedy I can search for the profound.

There's something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society.

You know, the fact that every morning you get a script in your mailbox, that's going to stop. All these little pedestrian, mundane things. And the cash.

God came into the world to reawaken the thirst for great things in us.

If something comes at me of course I'm gonna handle my business but I'm not the type to provoke the bullshit so I don't really get a lot of that.

Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow clumsy, error-strewn working out of an individual or collective path.