“A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like the surgeon, a craftsman, or, like the physician and the psychologist, an artist. This means that in order to be a good doctor a man must also have a good character, that is to say, whatever weaknesses and foibles he may have, he must love his fellow human beings in the concrete and desire their good before his own.”
"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."
- W. H. Auden
Relationships
"The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living."
- W. H. Auden
Connection to Earth
"Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he’ll escape."
- W. H. Auden
Aspirations
"We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know."
- W. H. Auden
Philosophy
"Music is the best means we have of digesting time."
- W. H. Auden
Philosophy
"Beauty is a gentle and loving heart."
- Beauty and the Beast
Compassion
"There is no greater beauty than kindness and compassion."
- Beauty and the Beast
Compassion
"Selflessness is the most beautiful trait one can possess."
- Beauty and the Beast
Compassion
"A kind heart can bring light to the darkest of places."
- Beauty and the Beast
Compassion
"In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us."
- Flora Edwards
Compassion