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

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.

The more we trust in God, the more mature we become and the more we will begin to enjoy His faithfulness, caring heart and wise counsels

Those of strong character and training are chosen by fate. They cannot help but rise to the forefront when their nations are troubled.

No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.

The people that were invested in me staying the same way after a decade will most likely by default have to be disappointed.

I think that the thing that we learned back in the day of the Civil Rights Movement is that you do have to keep on keeping on.

I draw in my sleep (dream of drawing) a lot. I don't think I have ever drawn anything in real life while I was sleeping, though. I do keep a pad near my bed, just in case.

You don't always have to say something. Let your life be your message.

To hear that your neighbor was worse off than yourself was not an altogether unpleasant experience.

One of the points in which I was especially interested was the Jim Crow regulations, that is, the system of separation of the races in street cars and railroad trains.

A person who has great wealth will still be unhappy if he hasn't also mastered gratitude!