Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction.

To become comfortable with uncertainty is one of the primary goals in the training of a physician.

I have not often seen much dignity in the process by which we die.

For aging is an art. The years between its first intimations and the time of the ultimate letting go of all earthly things can-if the readiness and resolve are there-be the real harvest of our lives.

There is, to be sure, sometimes only a small difference between being alert to possible danger and allowing oneself to become terrified to the point of paralysis by seeming or imagined portents.

If we cannot heal in one way, we must learn to heal in another.

The dignity we seek in dying is not to be found in our final weeks, days or moments but in the way we live and how we are seen by those people whose lives we affect.

The life sciences contain spiritual values which can never be explained by the materialistic attitude of present day science

Death is the surcease that comes when the exhausting battle has been lost.

Moths and flames, mankind and death--there is little difference.

In the community of living tissues, the uncontrolled mob of misfits that is cancer behaves like a gang of perpetually wilding adolescents. They are the juvenile delinquents of cellular society.

The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.

Big obstacles shrink when you confront them

Rephrase the words "staff members" into team members. Because the people in our team are far more than employees, or colleagues. We are a unit!

there is only this world, as it is now, and there has never been another, can never be any other.

Life is a fairytale if we know how to write the story.

Hanukkah is...the festival of lights, instead of one day of presents, we get eight crazy nights

The dentist drills some more and you hear him make a mistake. And to cover it up, they all say the same thing: "Okay, rinse."

I tend to project my father figure onto any director that I'm working with, or mother, if I'm working with a female, or it can be confused.

I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.

Life is not, nor ever has been, a straight line forward ... Life is characterized much more by exception and disorder than by total or perfect order.