We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste and loss of energy.

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.

Ignorance is the master key of all evils.

Some gifts are baits! Watch out!

Kindliness and sympathy, fellowship and understanding, are always good, but best when they come from a distant corner of the world.

Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible

I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.

Divorce is a 50-50 thing, and it can be a number of petty things that finally drive you out of your mind.

I've been so blessed to work with the people I have.

A person may be totally unimaginative and have the social vision of a mole, and we still call him a decent man.

All inventors, they say, are a little mad. I reckon that only completely sane people are willing to admit they are slightly crazy.

I wanted to be a decorator. I wanted to interior design homes and do everything myself.