The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them.

Medical education does not exist to provide students with a way of making a living, but to ensure the health of the community.

Between animal and human medicine, there is no dividing line-nor should there be.

The body is a cell state in which every cell is a citizen. Disease is merely the conflict of the citizens of the state brought about by the action of external forces.

Only those who regard healing as the ultimate goal of their efforts can, therefore, be designated as physicians.

It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation.

Body: A cell state in which every cell is a citizen.

Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.

Medical statistics will be our standard of measurement: we will weigh life for life and see where the dead lie thicker, among the workers or among the privileged.

If popular medicine gave the people wisdom as well as knowledge, it would be the best protection for scientific and well-trained physicians.

My politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation.

One could argue that it's romantic to die for love. Of course, then you're dead and unable to take that honeymoon trip to the Alps with all the other fashionable young couples, which is a shame.

Nature paces its change in gradual steps, and in this time of renewal, I danced in sync to the rhythm of life.

It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.

It's a bit of a weird thing to know that (my music) has translated to that many people.

Nature, always inartistic, takes pleasure in creating the impossible.

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.

I remember flying with Air India to New York quite a few years ago now and I love Indian food, so the fact that I had a curry on board was fantastic.

I've always sort of admired and respected one's ability to be comfortable with other people's discomfort or, you know, their being comfortable making other people uncomfortable.

Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him—mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp.

Don't try to make comparisons between your own pictures. Forget what you have done and think only of making the best of what you are doing.