“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.”

“Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.”

“Education doesnt make you happy. Nor does freedom. We dont become happy just because were free if we are. Or because weve been educated if we have. But because education may be the means by which...”

“Because I trust in the ever-changing climate of the heart. (At least, today I feel that way.) I think it is necessary to have many experiences for the sake of feeling something; for the sake of bei...”

“The past has no power over the present moment.”