Appealing to emotions, immediate gratification, and passivity of the American public is enabling a sicker society.

I surmise that later generations will likely scoff at the means by which we are currently addressing pain as well.

Too much profit is being made at the expense of unsuspecting patients.

What is rational in the practice of thoughtful medicine is impractical for the system.

A belief is nothing more than a repeated thought which you have chosen to embrace and implement in your life.

To be Despair. It is a portrait. Only close your eyes and feel.

Who is more foolish the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?

Clouds are poems, and the most moving poems linger on the blackboard so long, written in cursive so lovely, they also exist inside our fingertips. We never really erase them at the end of the lesson.

I think it's interesting being American, the expectations for an American guy, and the image that has to be projected. 'Oh, I can't wear pink,' that kind of stuff. There's none of that in Europe.

You know, back in my days they used Bayer aspirin for contraception. The gals put it between their knees and it wasn't that costly.

Pay, pay anything rather than go to law.

The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms.

I don't fool myself. I can't see myself doing Shakespeare.

You see somewhere along the way, we've allowed the pursuit of fame and things to blind us to the issues that prevent us from moving upward.