The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.

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.

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.

Hope is an echo, hope ties itself yonder, yonder.

It's never the differences between people that suprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.

After you're finished celebrating your 60th birthday, feel free to stop supporting your children, and start supporting your parents!

You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town.

I tend to think that the best face of humanity is that we learn. We explore, we study, we think.

The American work ethic is something to be admired. Our workforce, regardless of position, works hard to produce the best product and serve customers to the best of their ability.

It's wonderful to play around with fantasy, because there are an amazing number of as-yet-unbroken rules out there.

We must be warriors in the struggle against ignorance

Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.

It may safely be asserted that the art of war will soon be reduced to a simple question of expenditure and credit, and that the largest purse will be the strongest arm.