Albert Schweitzer

We must all die. But that I can save him from days of torture, that is what I feel as my great and ever new privilege. Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.

The patient must not be a mere number in the hospital files. He must be for the doctor a fellow human being, with a heart and a soul.

Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

I have made my life my argument.

My knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hoping are optimistic.