Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets.

We must accept human error as inevitable - and design around that fact.

Some is not a number. Soon is not a time.

We are guests in our patients' lives.

The Holy Grail of universal coverage in the United States may remain out of reach unless, through rational collective action overriding some individual self-interest, we can reduce per capita costs.

It is, I guess, politically correct, widely believed, that to say that American health care is the best in the world. It's not.

Right now, we are doing it blindly.

Traditional medical ethics, based on the doctor-patient relationship must be changed... The primary function of health care regulations should be to limit an individuals own decision-making!

I am romantic about the NHS. I love it.

As a doctor, an educator, an innovator and someone who has dedicated his professional career to making things work better and to helping people – I am ready to lead.

As a doctor, an educator, an innovator and someone who has dedicated his professional career to making things work better and to helping people - I am ready to lead.

If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.

Learning is not filling up a box but seeing and imagining what we can create with it.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

Film is a collaborative business: bend over.

Christian ethics is not primarily an individualistic, one-on-one-with-God brand of personal holiness; rather it has to do with living the life of the Spirit in Christian community and in the world.

Every man got a right to his own mistakes. Ain't no man that ain't made any.

I need to recharge creatively, and get off the clock of having to be somewhere just because, and having to keep juggling all these things.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

Our hopes are high. Our faith in the people is great. Our courage is strong. And our dreams for this beautiful country will never die.

I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.