Now the way of life that I preach is a habit to be acquired gradually by long and steady repetition. It is the practice of living for the day only, and for the day's work.

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.

Even at the time, [he] felt his anger to be out of proportion to the cause, but it represented an accumulation of resentment.

You Either Trust Someone or You Don’t

If you are investing time, money, energy to develop yourself at present and that would be the huge profit ever in future.

The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.

If we commit ourselves to reading thus increasing our knowledge, only God limits how far we can go in this world.

Within every desire is the mechanics of its fulfillment.

I was dying. Like all the other people who live in this world.

It is absolutely without contradiction that when women are encouraged to participate in the formal economies of their societies, the economy grows.

Condemn me if you choose - I do that myself, - but condemn me, and not the path which I am following, and which I point out to those who ask me where, in my opinion, the path is.

Your life is about everyone whose life you touch, and it is about the way in which you touch them.