He was teaching me how to die, just as he'd taught me how to live.

Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted

A rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth.

When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.

Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?"....I met his gaze and I did not blink. "Words of comfort," I said to my father.

Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.

The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.

No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.

Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.

We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.

You live it forward, but understand it backward.

The first place where self-esteem begins its journey is within us.

All it takes is one small voice to make a difference." Thread

I think I was always interested in darker characters just because there was a lot more to do.

What I desire to point out is that I wish the law was not so, but that being the law, I must follow it.

One plus one equals three. When a man and woman marry they become one never two.

There's a lot of talent in South Central L.A., in Compton and Long Beach and Watts, and the city north of Pico pretty much sits back and waits for that talent to emerge and then steps in.

The stardom thing happened and now I'm trying to make a comeback, if you want to call it that.

See the first stroke as a start and everything after that a recovery.

Being a Southern person and a blonde, it's not a good combination. Immediately, when people meet you, they think of you as not being smart.

If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.