“A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession.”

“Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.”

“A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.”

“Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.”

“In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.”

“Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.”

“All words are pegs to hang ideas on.”

“A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.”

“No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake....”

“If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old”

“I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.”

“Each voice carries a portion of value, no matter how unpalatable or distasteful that voice may be: no one person, government, ideology, transnational, or religious institution can own and dominate ...”

“There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure ad moving on. Yet most people are stricken wth fear. They fear failure so much that they fail.”

“Failure is when you stop trying to do something.So, if you want to succeed.Don't stop trying.”

“Society has failed its inhabitants, just as its inhabitants have failed society.”