Can I give them what they think they're going to get from me? That's always the big question.
What is patience but an equanimity which enables you to rise superior to the trials of life.
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.
Problems are just businesses waiting for the right entrepreneur to unlock the value.
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
Beauty is only the start of bearable terror.
If a woman is poorly dressed, you notice her dress. If a woman is impeccably dressed, you notice the woman.