"Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor."

"Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose."

"Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books."

"They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed."

"In my own personal life, God plays a great role in the risk, because I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do - and not only for operating, but for everything."

"Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten."

"Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend."

"Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth."