To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.

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.

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

This is the love of God, an alchemy that can turn enemies into children.

You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself.

Sometimes you need to stop doing something to really see it afresh.

The human spirit: Unbreakable. Relentless. Free.

Boxing is not about your feelings. It's about performance.

We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.

All things are subject to decay and change.

In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry.

I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the wrong light to the entire world because they will say that I could have prevented it.