The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained.

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

Prayer is a force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men lifted out of sickness by the power of prayer. It is the only power in the world that overcomes the laws of nature.

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

Those who don't learn to fight worry, die young.

It seems that the increased number of scientific workers, their being split up into groups whose studies are limited to a small subject, and over-specialization have brought about a shrinking of intelligence. There is no doubt that the quality of any human group decreases when the number of the individuals composing this group increases beyond certain limits... The best way to increase the intelligence of scientists would be to decrease their number.

When we pray we link ourselves with an inexhaustible motive power.