There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

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.

God is the color of water. Water doesn't have a color.

I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap.

Rhode Island has become a second home to me after being involved in its cultural life for over 61 years. I look upon it as a privilege to be inducted into the Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame.

I've also been with the same girl, Angie, since I was 15.

Imagine censors that wouldn't let you sit in a man's lap. I've been in more laps than a napkin!

Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.

A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it.

Find fault, when you must find fault, in private, if possible; and some time after the offense, rather than at the time.

I'd like to work with Outkast, I'd like to work with RZA, I'd like to work with Timbaland, York, a whole bunch of people.

We try to... we are, I suppose to a certain extent all affected and erm, that is both funny and sad I think.