I'm a great believer in geography being destiny.

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.

Give me a moment I am preparing to drawback to screamLouder than a train overhead below a railroad bridge

Talk to someone about themselves and they'll listen for hours.

I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have killed myself right away.

Once you start changing a name, you see, there's no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.

If philanthropy is not voluntary, it destroys liberty and justice. The law can give nothing that has not first been taken from its owner.

I have only one bit of advice to beginning writers: be sure your novel is read by Rodgers and Hammerstein.

Nathaniel closes his eyes and jumps, his arms glued to his sides like that fly's. He doesn't try to break his fall, just hits hard, because it hurts less than everything else.

No one automatically gives you respect just because you show up. You have to earn it

Do you never look at yourself when you abuse another person?

Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.