To talk of diseases is a sort of Arabian Nights entertainment.

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.

When experience is bought by pain, it teaches.

May you always walk in Beauty.

If I could have a superpower, I would choose the ability to make people's heart stop, if I just point at them.

Of course life is bizarre, the more bizarre it gets, the more interesting it is. The only way to approach it is to make yourself some popcorn and enjoy the show.

We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.

Your job is to take notes, my job is to make that impossible.

Very clever people are often very clever at creating rationalisations for insane beliefs.

It's too late to change your mind after you've jumped off the cliff.

I love my kids as individuals, not as a herd, and I do have a herd of children: I have seven kids.

Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action.