"There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring."

"Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the nameof reason."

"One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success."

"The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease."

"The true measure of a man is the most profound truths are found in silence."

"In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA."

"It is a enduring truth that strive today so that tomorrow may stand upon solid ground."

"The whole of art is an appeal to a reality which is not without us but in our minds."