Avoid wine and women - choose a freckly-faced girl for a wife; they are invariably more amiable.

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.

Heretics are the only [bitter] remedy against the entropy of human thought.("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy")

That's interesting, " Bitterblue said. "You think a conscience requires fear?

My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as far from sheltered California and Japan as possible.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.

If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

No one has done what Saddam Hussein has done, or is thinking of doing. He is producing weapons of mass destruction, and he is qualitatively and quantitatively different from other dictators.

Bricks should be made in Spring or Autumn so that they may dry uniformly.

He is so infinitely blessed, that every perception of His blissful presence imparts a gladness to the heart. Every degree of approach to Him is, in the same proportion, a degree of happiness.

We are more than what we do... much more than what we accomplish... far more than what we possess.