The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.

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.

The pleasure of the soul appears to be found in the journey of discovery, the unfolding revelation of expanded insight and experience.

Nowadays I embrace it all/Beautiful ideals and amazing flaws.

Meditation is the ultimate selfless act, because when you meditate you are sacrificing your puny personality for the universal reality.

Style is whatever you want to do, if you can do it with confidence.

Neither in writing nor in reading wilt thou be able to lay down rules for others before thou shalt have first learned to obey rules thyself.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.

With understanding, those we love will certainly flower.

Modernism is about space. Postmodernism is about communication. You should do what turns you on.

He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life,where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet.