“We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.”

“Nothing in life is more wonderful than faith - the one great moving force which we can neither weigh in the balance nor test in the crucible.”

“In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions. ”

“Ask not what disease the person has, but rather what person the disease has”

“the person who takes medicine must recover twice,once from the disease ,and once from the medicine.”

“He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all”

“Think not of the amount to be accomplished, the difficulties to be overcome, or the end to be attained, but set earnestly, at the little task at your elbow, letting that be sufficient for the day.”