It's not what you do but that kind of job you do that makes the difference.

I just hated poverty.

Occasionally I talk with people who see doctors as people who do nothing but give of themselves and never receive from anyone else - especially not from their patients. That is totally false. The longer I remain in my profession, the more I realize how much I receive from those who come to me for help.

There's absolutely no reason at all that physicians, scientists, shouldn't be involved in things that affect all of us.

If we develop in-depth knowledge, it will enable us to give our best to others and help to make a better world.

I don't do a lot of talking. I do a lot of doing. And really, it says more about a person than how much they talk.

It's a failure only if you don't get anything out of it, Thomas Edison said he knew 999 ways that a light bulb did not work; yet we have lights today.