“Time is the one thing that patients need most from their doctors--time to be heard, time to have things explained, time to reassured, time to be introduced by the doctor personally to specialists or other attendants whose very existence seems to reflect something new and threatening. yet the one thing that too many doctors find most difficult to command or manage is time.”

“Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.”

“Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.”

“Life is an adventure in forgiveness.”

“My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.”

“The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.”

“It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.”

“Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.”

“Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.”

“The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.”

“It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.”