The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

Listen to your patient, he is telling you the diagnosis.

The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine.

Gentlemen, I have a confession to make. Half of what we have taught you is in error, and furthermore we cannot tell you which half it is

The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head.

No man is really happy or safe without a hobby.

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.

It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent.

Kindness is going out of your way to perform favors regarded as wonderful by the recipient.

We are known to be anti-authoritarian, anti-institutional, and notoriously anti-religious—more likely to quote Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Monty Python, or Star Trek than the Bible.

No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.

I don't take myself as seriously as some people think, and I'd hate anyone to think I was preaching. That's the last thing I want.

The atomic bombs will surely shorten the war, and let us hope that they will effectively end war as a possibility in human affairs.

For me, men are not divided into believers and atheists, but between oppressors and oppressed, between those who want to keep this unjust society and those who want to struggle for justice.

It's possible to be satisfied with a day's work or a cake, but a life... what is a life but a history of events badly remembered?

We stop the one who can't cease from seeking things outside, and practice with our bodies with a posture that seeks absolutely nothing. This is zazen.

Your mind is just like a parachute ! if you don't open it, it won't work !