The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and their griefs.

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.

I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.

Familiarity can provide the misguided illusion of understanding. Assume nothing.

I, for one, respect those who believe with all their hearts and conscience that there are no circumstances under which any abortion should ever be available.

You want to achieve the effect, but not necessarily perform the same thing.

The old echoes are long in dying.

Health is a state of perfect subatomic communication and ill health is a state when communication breaks down. We become ill when our waves are out of sync.

Money will never make you happy and happy will never make you money. That may be a wise crack, but I doubt it.

Fas est ab hoste doceri. One should learn even from one's enemies.

Security matters should not be entrusted to people who make decisions without weighing things up.

Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.