Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents.

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 our great Master.

I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then.

Even from a distance, their eyes conveyed the strength of their souls. And their eyes spoke of death.

When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.

I was trying to figure out how to use the skills I had developed in the world of social change.

Every time a customer calls or you call a customer, you have an opportunity and a choice. What choice are you making?

I don't know the nuts and bolts of writing. I studied medicine. I was a pre-med nerd. So everything I learned, I know about writing is very instinctive.

You can't just run out and start the car until some cat invents a car.

Sometimes we behave and perform with our lives, not for God, but for an audience.

When love could teach a monarch to be wise, And gospel-light first dawn'd from Bullen's eyes.