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

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.

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

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.

Without the heart it’s not worship, it’s a stage play.

If man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere.

Energy is like money; once spent, it's gone. However, it is possible to make an investment, as opposed to an expenditure, that yields a return.

You don't understand music: you hear it. So hear me with your whole body.

Justice waits upon the great, Interest holds the scale, and Riches turns the balance.

It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community.

When I'm in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself 'why?'

Stand up and face your fears, or they will defeat you.

I was exceedingly delighted with the waltz, and also with the polka. These differ in name, but there the difference ceases