“The price one pays for having a kind man at ones elbow.”

“It seems logical that he who supports total war in principle cannot complain of a war against civilians.”

“It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.”

“Dr. Wyman preached a God I couldnt quite see in my mind, and certainly couldnt love. I dimly pictured some kind of Grandfather, who dealt out to bad people their awful just deserts, which I thought...”

“What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it's been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima.”

“The reality is that changes are coming. ... They must come. You must share in bringing them.”

“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.”

“In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this?”

“Do not work primarily for money; do your duty to patients first and let the money follow; our life is short, we don't live twice; the whirlwind will pick up the leaves and spin them, but then it wi...”

“Rich people do not work for money, they are doing what they like to do”

“Why do we need money beyond a point? If we are free of ill health, enmity, and debt, is that not enough? Too much money only leads to less peace.”

“Nine out of ten significant people have to do with money or war!”

“A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.”

“I had an interest in health policy and a realization that, as an academic physician, one of the things you're always looking to do is to have your clinical interests and your scholarly interests ov...”

“The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.”