We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.

Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.

Medical education is not just a program for building knowledge and skills in its recipients... it is also an experience which creates attitudes and expectations.

A patient had a 50-50 chance of benefiting from visiting a physician as of 1910. Medicine was more like voodoo than science until the 20th Century.

The real enemy is the man who tries to mold the human spirit so that it will not dare to spread its wings.

There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.

The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.

Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me.

The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.

You have had your last bad meal. But, you have also heard your last honest compliment, and you have lost your last true friend.

Who would have ever though that a person could be so powerful, then so completely powerless, all in the same lifetime?

Society demands not conformity, but the appearance of conformity. That's the reason for hypocrisy.

Yes, I am confusing literature with life. I'm declaring my own ordinary life to be a work of literature.

Waiting is a risk to something or nothing, its on your own Decision if you'll stay and still with your Patience.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honours but in deserving them.

I love Christmas, not just because of the presents but because of all the decorations and lights and the warmth of the season.

His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral were but a wand, He walk'd with to support uneasy steps Over the burning marle.

I think that certainty is a closed door, It's the end of the conversation. Doubt is an open door.

Just because you sell lots of records it doesn't mean to say you're any good. Look at Phil Collins.

My fancies are fireflies Specks of living light twinkling in the dark.