We are constantly misled by the ease with which our minds fall into the ruts of one or two experiences

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.

...once again I saw that incredulous question, that dawning hope: We are not alone, then? We have brothers in other places? We have friends we never knew?

Oh, the summer night / HAS A SMILE OF LIGHT / And she sits on a sapphire throne.

Work is man's most natural form of relaxation.

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

Conversion is a turning onto the right road. The next thing to do is to walk on it.

It's a little awkward to know that the world is going to see you and your mom argue about stupid things and watch me get grounded...again.

I sit down religiously every morning, I sit down for eight hours every day - and the sitting down is all.

It can't be bought. It can't be taught. It must be caught.

I think we're all brothers - that's the truth. But the press gave us the name black Muslims to cut us off from the others.

Relationship humour gets the most laughs. If I'm able to get the women laughing, men will have to laugh along because they would be scared to death.