When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.

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.

By studying yesterday, you will understand today.

A spiritual reinterpretation of events gives us miraculous authority to command the winds, to part the waters, and to break all chains that bind us.

Bravery is not found in getting knocked down. Rather, bravery is found is getting back up knowing that you’re going to get knocked down again.

You call it thought. I call it a mind manufactured invisible powerful product.

Good design encourages a viewer to want to learn more.

My recommendation is a compelling urgency for decentralisation. There is a necessity to decentralise the Police. We are under policed.

He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.

The truth is, for some absurd reason, no one is willing to admit that the interests of the producers and the theater owners are not the same.

Life passes into pages if it passes into anything.

Much more than a 20th-century village storyteller, Cees Nooteboom stands as an impressive and inimitable voice among contemporary writers.