Patch Adams

In Gesundheit!, we proved that free care with love and humor works.

War is organized madness, and peace is wise sanity.

I spent 12 years in a mental hospital, and it taught me more about life than any school.

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

Clowns are the oxygen of the world.

Medicine should be an art, not just a science.

The patient is the most important person in the hospital.

I don't want to be a doctor who just prescribes pills; I want to prescribe joy.

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

Our healthcare system is broken because it forgot the human touch.

In my experience, the happiest people are those who give the most.

Being a doctor means being a friend first.

Hospitals should be places of joy, not fear.

I use humor to disarm fear in patients.

The soul of medicine is empathy.

Life is too short not to laugh at ourselves.

True healing comes from community and love.

Doctors are artists with human lives.

I learned compassion in the depths of my own suffering.

Revolutionize medicine by humanizing it.