There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.

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.

Sufism, " according to the Sufi, "is an adventure in living, necessary adventure.

If you think everybody hates you, then your ignorance is beyond the limit, because there's a loving heart somewhere longing to see your face.

I represent where them killers at 145th and Broadway you get your head cracked

Unfortunately, it happens all too seldom that you really disappear behind a work, that you are no longer audible as an interpreter.

We've come to this dark time in which the new Gestapo of Homeland Security lurks here, where citizens are having their rights suspended.

If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck.

Eating healthy and taking care of my body and my mind really make me come alive, and seeing others doing that inspires me to stay with it. I always feel great when I do.

We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are.

Indifference creates an artificial peace.

He who has once made himself notorious as utterly unprincipled, is not credited even when he speaks the truth.