Experience is the great teacher; unfortunately, experience leaves mental scars, and scar tissue contracts.

The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.

The glory of medicine is that it is constantly moving forward, that there is always more to learn. The ills of today do not cloud the horizon of tomorrow, but act as a spur to greater effort.

Given one well-trained physician of the highest type and he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.

Unfortunately, only a small number of patients with peptic ulcer are financially able to make a pet of an ulcer.

The examining physician often hesitates to make the necessary examination because it involves soiling the finger.

It doesn’t matter where you’re at, when you’re with people you love, you’re where you belong.

Keep the faith, don't lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct.

The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing; if ill-packed, next to nothing.

The walk downstairs to the breakfast table is excercise enough for any gentleman.

Autumn. Pretty leaves, pumpkin pie and sweaters. Perfect weather for reading. Winter is great but I hate shoveling.

Sirens wailed; the revolution had come to Harrisonville. Blood was flowing on Pearl Street.

Of course, the young male demographic has always been the target demographic for 'Star Trek,' the men ageing fifteen to about twenty-five or thirty, a very tough market to appeal to.

I blessed the power which has filled my life with poetry.

I would love to have played in the '60s. Now that would have been fun.

His [Gen. Douglas MacArthurs] twenty-two medals-thirteen of them for heroism-probably exceeded those of any other figure in American history. He seemed to seek death on battlefields.