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.

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

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.

There are three classes of human beings: men, women and women physicians.

Every moment i am expressing gratitude for all the abundance and all the beauty that fills my heart with joy.

If you are looking for a career that may induce a myriad of health conditions into you, I can recommend working at the 13, 796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii, USA.

Penny was a very pretty, witty and brave girl, as bold as a Marine platoon storming Iwo Jima.

The wisest of the wicked schemes are actually foolish.

I felt ashamed for having judged him so harshly without knowing the real boy. His one offense against me―goaded by Charlie’s bullying character―was easy to forgive.

Education is learning more than it is being taught. It's the chemistry of curiosity exposed to information. In that sense all of life is potentially school. And even I can pass that.

It is because the method of physics does not satisfy the comprehension that we have to go on further.

Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.

I have no ambitions to be a cabinet minister, or prime minister. I wouldn't wish being prime minister on my worst enemy.

Literature must spring from the deep and submerged humus of our life.