Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

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.

The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War.

As for Guns N' Roses, I don't think there's ever a chance of a reunion.

I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.

Rage is fine as long as it doesn't deteriorate into bitterness.

I ordered a wake-up call the other day. The phone rang and a woman's voice said, 'What the hell are you doing with your life?'

Today, there are three kinds of people: the haves, the have-nots, and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-haves.

I'm sure that if I had a partner and that partner cheated on me, that I would be devastated if we were in a committed, monogamous relationship. So of course, it's a devastating thing.

Do not seek Adolf Hitler with your mind. You will find him through the strength of your hearts.

This day I see that pretty much all my correspondences are love letters.

Nobody trusts anyone, or why did they put tilt on a pinball machine.