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

Men grow when inspired by a high purpose, when contemplating vast horizons. The sacrifice of oneself is not very difficult for one burning with the passion for a great adventure.

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.

Prayer, like radium, is a luminous and self-generating form of energy.

Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.

Prayer is the force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men, after all other therapy had failed, lifted out of disease and melancholy by the serene effort of prayer. Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strength.

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