Patch Adams
“Our job is improving the quality of life not just delaying death.”
“All of life is a coming home. Salesmen, secretaries, coal miners, beekeepers, sword swallowers, all of us. All the restless hearts of the world, all trying to find a way home.”
“What's wrong with death sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can't we treat death with a certain amount of humanity and dignity and decency and, God forbid, maybe even humor. Death is not the enemy, gentlemen. If we're going to fight a disease, let's fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference.”
“Every human being has an impact on another.”
“We start out so open and spontaneous, we’re real individuals, and then somewhere along the way we’re drawn to conform.”
“I thought only I could repel women with such raw efficiency.”
“Death – to blink for an exceptionally long period of time.”
“If you focus on the problem, you can’t see the solution. Never focus on the problem.”
“You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I'll guarantee you'll win.”