The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.

Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.

Medical education is not just a program for building knowledge and skills in its recipients... it is also an experience which creates attitudes and expectations.

A patient had a 50-50 chance of benefiting from visiting a physician as of 1910. Medicine was more like voodoo than science until the 20th Century.

The real enemy is the man who tries to mold the human spirit so that it will not dare to spread its wings.

There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.

Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me.

The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.

We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.

You have had your last bad meal. But, you have also heard your last honest compliment, and you have lost your last true friend.

To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair.

What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.

Martin Luther King (Jr.) during the civil rights movement used to exclaim that he looked forward to heaven where he would be "Free at last." That is the inscription on his tomb in Atlanta.

A new poll found that 43 percent of Americans think President Obama is doing a good job at handling the BP oil spill. Of course, the same poll found that 43 percent of Americans hate pelicans.

I'm not necessarily proud of the World Cups and the grand slams won or lost, the amount of points I scored, this record or that.

I've never even been out of my BMI range. I'm 5-foot-3. If I gain five pounds, it shows.

When it comes to responding to Jesus, I find it's important to distinguish between reverence, religion, and relationship.

Patience is one of the most valuable attributes in investing.

When I come home from a shoot, I'd rather reheat food I've made than eat takeout.

Character consists of the moral awareness and strength to know the good, love the good and do the good.