To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us.

...in recognition of his work on vascular suture and the transplantation of blood-vessels and organs.

All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.

Prayer, the basic exercise of the spirit, must be actively practiced in our private lives. The neglected soul of the human being must be made strong enough to assert itself once more. For if the power of prayer is again released and used in the lives of common men and women; if the spirit declares its aims clearly and boldly, there is yet hope that our prayers for a better world will be answered.

If the doctor of today does not become the dietician of tomorrow, the dietician of today will become the doctor of tomorrow.