Nature, the great Moloch, which exacts a frightful tax of human blood, sparing neither young nor old; taking the child from the cradle, the mother from her babe, and the father from the family.

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.

Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light.

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

After all, you are a hero and everything.

It's only when gravity starts to take over you begin to think about your body.

If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.

I don't work this hard just to be the best player. I do it to win.

When humans become gods, when our wings grow so great as to beat about the very edges of the earth, no one can answer but us.

Freedom of a nation cannot be won by solitary acts of heroism though they may be of the true type, never by heroism so called.

The author lives with one foot in an everyday world and the other feeling about anxiously for a foothold in another more precarious one.

George W. Bush did an incredible job in the presidency, defending us from freedom.