Medical education does not exist to provide students with a way of making a living, but to ensure the health of the community.

The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them.

Between animal and human medicine, there is no dividing line-nor should there be.

The body is a cell state in which every cell is a citizen. Disease is merely the conflict of the citizens of the state brought about by the action of external forces.

Only those who regard healing as the ultimate goal of their efforts can, therefore, be designated as physicians.

It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation.

Body: A cell state in which every cell is a citizen.

Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.

Medical statistics will be our standard of measurement: we will weigh life for life and see where the dead lie thicker, among the workers or among the privileged.

If popular medicine gave the people wisdom as well as knowledge, it would be the best protection for scientific and well-trained physicians.

My politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation.

Lust and the English make no sense to me.

Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Half effort does not produce half results it produces no results. Work continuous work and hard work is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Writing is just my first love. And I still have some issues with telling people what to do.

Coming from The Disney Channel, anything I do is going to offend somehow, somewhere, somehow.

To express truth is to write naturally, forcibly, and delicately.

Chat to the ghosts! That's what I do!

The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

Literature gives us a memory of lives we did not lead.

So that's how you're going to fix the family problem. Little Dragomirs. Good idea.

To be romantic is quite simply to allow yourself to fall in love with life - all of life - and experience it fully, openly, passionately, and purposefully