What is patience but an equanimity which enables you to rise superior to the trials of life.

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.

I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.

[To her younger sister on using drugs:] If you do that stuff, you're dancing with the devil, because you never know when you're going to cross the line and not be able to get back.

Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little then to break

If we are giving judicial benefits to one part, we should give them to the other part as well.

William Bennett is my patron saint, one of them. Redd Foxx is another.

Horror is a totally different animal. It's intense. You can do drama or comedies, but in horror, you really have to trick yourself into believing a lot of unbelievable phenomena.

When I use the Internet, it's pretty much strictly for music. Checking out other people's web sites, what's going on, listening to music. It's pretty much a musical thing for me.

There is absolutely nothing special about walking on a rope stretched along the ground. Where there is no risk, there can be no pride in a deed accomplished, and therefore no happiness.

Don’t just think about the technology available today, but the technology that would be 10 times better in the future.

Laughter is a sense of proportion and a power of seeing yourself from the outside.