We should impart our courage and not our despair.
I have little tolerance for incompetence, sloppy thinking, and laziness.
An inquiring, analytical mind; an unquenchable thirst for new knowledge; and a heartfelt compassion for the ailing - these are prominent traits among the committed clinicians who have preserved the passion for medicine.
Often a healing takes place in ourselves as we pray for the healing of others.
Real success requires respect for and faithfulness to the highest human values-honesty, integrity, self-discipline, dignity, compassion, humility, courage, personal responsibility, courtesy, and human service.
The natural history of science is the study of the unknown. If you fear it you're not going to study it and you're not going to make any progress.
I think human beings have an innate desire to help each other. And whether you're in medicine or anything else, if you see someone that you can help. . . you get a gratification from doing it. In fact, I think that is perhaps the most important, you might say, fabric that holds the society together.
A couple of years ago I used to have long, curly, mermaid hair that was amazing, and then I broke up with my boyfriend and I cut it off to my shoulders. It was in this awkward Molly Ringwald phase, so I just kept cutting it shorter.
God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.
The charlatan takes very different shapes according to circumstances; but at bottom he is a man who cares nothing about knowledge for its own sake, and only strives to gain the semblance of it that he may use it for his own personal ends, which are always selfish and material.
Sometimes I will endanger my own life to pleasure a woman.