“You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.”

“If you want to be a good doctor for patients, you need to devote some time to it, and if you want to have achievements in scientific research, you need to spend a lot of time in the laboratory. It is difficult to reconcile.”

“You look good in my dress
I'll get your friends to clean the mess
You look good in my clothes
I can feel you where the doctor goes”

“do you think it is
better to be clever than to be good?”
“Good for what?” asked the Doctor. “You are good for
nothing unless you are clever.”

“Sometimes, you didn’t get what you wanted. But if you had all you needed? Life was good.”

“The older you get, the more you realize you need a handful of good, close, tight friends.”

“Listen to me, Siddalee, and listen good: There is no excuse to let your looks go, no matter how poor you are. Cleanliness is next to Godliness, but honey let me tell you, ugliness will get you nowhere.”

“Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.”

“You try spending six months sitting at somebody's bedside, waiting for them to die and then tell me that the happy-ending love story isn't one of God's good gifts.”

“You need to study history, Doctor. All great changes are based on pain and destruction.”