Advice is sought to confirm a position already taken.

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.

Inspirational people weren't meant to be enablers. They were meant to empower!

When everything has to be right something isn't.

Unless you paddle for the wave, you'll never know if you could catch it. But once you do... Ride it as long as you can. Love as long as you can.

I am a businessman at the end of the day. I have grown up with Excel sheets. I start out writing my novel with spreadsheets and the milestones in each chapter highlighted.

It's not just being overweight that's dangerous. Stress is dangerous.

The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.

Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.

Room to swing a cat, it seemed was absolutely essential. It was an infrequent but indispensable operation.

True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good - and we all know how rare that is.