Save the fleeting minute; learn gracefully to dodge the bore.

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.

For how can any human be separate from humanity and humanness?

... "You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean, and we have to keep swimming.

To die trying is the proudest humans thing.

The Marines was a fresh start - that is why they shave your head. I wish they would let you change your name.

Neil Gaiman is a star. He constructs stories like some demented cook might make a wedding cake, building layer upon layer, including all kinds of sweet and sour in the mix.

The ant's a centaur in his dragon world.

For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.

Anybody who has ever tried to rectify an injustice or set a record straight comes to feel that he is going mad.

And in Freddy vs. Jason I like when Jason and I double team Destiny's Child.

Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me, Christ in the mouth of everyone who speaks of me, Christ in every eye that sees me, Christ in every ear that hears me.