Nothing great or new can be done without enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the fly-wheel which carries your saw through the knots in the log.

A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world.

Standardization of our educational systems [which includes testing]is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.

A certain excessiveness seems a necessary element in all greatness.

I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for the operative part is the least part of the work.

There is only one ultimate and effectual preventative for the maladies to which flesh is heir, and that is death.

One of the first lessons a warrior is taught is that denial of one's circumstances only results in failure to recognize real danger.

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.

If I move one way, I lose a couple votes. If I move another way, I lose a couple votes.

You can successfully force people to follow a certain course, but you cannot force them to understand it.

My entire life has been devoted to breaking down barriers, to finding common ground.

People who are criticizing... don't really get it, because if they did, they would like it.

My mentors grow old and foolish. I am afraid.

We have 62 counties in New York State and each has its own system of death investigation.

We are waiting for the long-promised invasion. So are the fishes.