Do as much as possible for the patient, and as little as possible to the patient.

In my view, the lost art of listening and ignoring the patient as a human being is a quintessential failure of our health care.

Once a new paradigm takes hold, its acceptance is extraordinarily rapid and one finds few who claim to have adhered to a discarded method.

Some of life's biggest and most positive changes are propelled by mini conspiracies of a few well-meaning folks.

Nuclear bombs have made mass murder a reality. Nuclear bombs threaten humankind.

I see nuclear weapons as the ultimate evil, not just evil, but the ultimate evil with the potential to make life unlivable on this planet.

As long as we rationalize nuclear weapons as "necessary" in order to save American lives, then nuclear weapons will never be gotten rid of.

Nuclear weapons will not be gotten rid of until the United States confronts the magnitude of the horror, the tragedy, and the long-term suffering of the victims

Wisdom makes decisions today that will still be good tomorrow.

I like to remember what I have to be thankful for. When it gets bad, I usually list them out loud to my wife and myself. Helps me maintain a balanced perspective.

I had the feeling . . . that my experience was very different from other people’s. (Are we all under this illusion?)

It's so rich as a trope - the whole idea of the road and it being in terms of language, being an active experience.

You can't be a 20-mile a day eater if you're just a 5-mile a day runner.

T.E.A.M. = Together Everyone Achieves More.

Reincarnation is not what a lot of people think. Yes, we are eternal. No, everyone does not attain enlightenment; it's not necessary; life is smarter than we are.

When we look at films, we usually see only the action. Yet it is the decision to act that helps us understand how the character's mind works.

Human rights for everybody, there is no difference. Live on! And be yourself!

Creativity suffers under great scrutiny from ourselves or others.