A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world.

Standardization of our educational systems [which includes testing]is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.

Nothing great or new can be done without enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the fly-wheel which carries your saw through the knots in the log.

A certain excessiveness seems a necessary element in all greatness.

I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for the operative part is the least part of the work.

There is only one ultimate and effectual preventative for the maladies to which flesh is heir, and that is death.

You put a new heart in Emma a long time ago, it just wasn’t the kind you were thinking of.” He laughed to himself. “Hope is an amazing thing. I saw it in Emma, saw it with my own eyes.

Love is love, " I told her, as I tell all of my patients who are ashamed to find themselves shattered by the death of a dog. "Loss is loss.

Truth forever on the scaffold wrong forever on the throne.

I don't think the sunrise is as good as the moonlight.

The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldnt get any roles other than as somebody dark.

We can't continue to be like this. Who am I? Your fiancée or your concubine?

Of all nature's animated kingdoms, fish are the most unchristian, inhospitable, heartless, and cold-blooded of creatures.

I would like to learn to play the cello. I would like to paint. I would like to fully understand the concept of pi.

Being mortal, never pray for an untroubled life. Rather, ask the God to give you an enduring heart.

I actually have a good relationship with critics. You have to identify everything that you like and don't like that you see, and that's your job.