One cannot choose how one's life begins but one can choose to face the end with courage
Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.
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. Often the best part of your work will have nothing to do with potions and powders, but with the exercise of an influence of the strong upon the weak, of the righteous upon the wicked, of the wise upon the foolish.
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.
Care more for the individual patient than for the special features of the disease. . . . Put yourself in his place. . . The kindly word, the cheerful greeting, the sympathetic look - these the patient understands.
It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.
I love making money, but you can't live your life waiting to get rich in a job that no longer feeds you artistically.
I'm not saying that charming, witty and warm copy won't sell. I'm just saying I've seen thousands of charming, witty campaigns that didn't sell.
. . because when we look up into the sky at night there will be no darkness, just the blazing light of billions and billions of stars, all falling.
Don’t trade the ultimate for the immediate. Don’t settle for less, wait for God’s best.