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

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.

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 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.

Your past success and victories, small or large, can renew your resolve to persevere if you are willing to lean on them.

Shame lurks in the pockets of the mind (or spirit), like lint. No matter how brave a face you put on things – and believe me, I did – you always have to face yourself in the end.

God's part is to put forth power; our part is to put forth faith.

I’ll not complain about your boring life, if you just leave me to mine

There are no desperate situations, there are only desperate people.

(...) You cruel creature, little mite of a thing with a heart the size of a fullstop.

Ill smoke anything anybody gives me, Im not particular.

The Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone.

There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. However bad life may seem, there is always hope.

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.