Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music 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.

Soap?""School of America in Paris" he explains. "SOAP".Nice. My father sent me here to be cleansed.

Complete - Yourself! Others may only enhance your completeness.

What you think about yourself is more important than what others think about you.

Hope is but the dream of those who wake.

In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.

Theater is a very changeable art. It responds to the moment in history the way the newspaper does, and there's no predicting what to come up with next.

The world is a nettle; disturb it, it stings. Grasp it firmly, it stings not.

Corollary 1: The existence of immense quantities of trash in science fiction is admitted and it is regrettable; but it is no more unnatural than the existence of trash anywhere.

The single most important impediment to global institutions is the concept of "my country, right or wrong".