Only those who regard healing as the ultimate goal of their efforts can, therefore, be designated as physicians.

First, it must be a pleasure to study the human body the most miraculous masterpiece of nature and to learn about the smallest vessel and the smallest fiber. But second and most important, the medical profession gives the opportunity to alleviate the troubles of the body, to ease the pain, to console a person who is in distress, and to lighten the hour of death of many a sufferer.

The body is a cell state in which every cell is a citizen. Disease is merely the conflict of the citizens of the state brought about by the action of external forces.

Medical statistics will be our standard of measurement: we will weigh life for life and see where the dead lie thicker, among the workers or among the privileged.

It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation.

Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.

Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.