I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient.

We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.

It's unconscionable that cancer patients get the wrong diagnosis 30 percent of the time and that it takes so long to treat them with appropriate drugs for their cancer.

I want to do transformational work to actually fix the world.

I'm a physician. I've been blessed with ideas and resources to use technology to make the world a better place. That's what I would like to leave behind.

The pancreas is by far the most complex organ in the body.

The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster.

I love doing a lot of things I'm told I can't do. I think that's what drives me and keeps me awake every day.

You don't inherit cancer; you actually get it.

We need to and must protect privacy. But I think that people will be willing and even eager to share medical information about themselves for the greater good of mankind.

I like to look for patterns, in science and life. It’s what I do.

It is interesting to find that those whom I like, they also like me.

I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.

...because wherever else the future leads, it leads ultimately to death, the end that is present in my beginning and in yours.

If you ever find yourself walking a mile in my shoes, I hope that you would be at least be given the same choice.

Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms.

What a strange pattern the shuttle of life can weave.

I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.

Every song I put on a record could be a single and I just pack my bags for it... and the minute it takes off, I'm not gonna be home for a while.

If you want something you have to wait.

Like Guitar in Son of Solomon, and Son in Tar Baby, he believed that harmony could never exist between the races.