I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.

Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients.

Pharmacology is benefited by the prepared mind. You need to know what you are looking for.

History repeats, but science reverberates.

All cancers are alike but they are alike in a unique way.

Cancer was not disorganized chromosomal chaos. It was organized chromosomal chaos

There is a very moving and ancient connection between cancer and depression.

Down to their innate molecular core, cancer cells are hyperactive, survival-endowed, scrappy, fecund, inventive copies of ourselves.

A positive attitude does not cure cancer, any more than a negative one causes it.

One swallow is a coincidence, but two swallows make summer.

If there's a seminal discovery in oncology in the last 20 years, it's that idea that cancer genes are often mutated versions of normal genes.

A coward is a man who'd rather live dead than die alive

Do what you were called to do and guard your calling

Believe one who has tried, you shall find a fuller satisfaction in the woods than in the books. The trees and the rocks will teach you that which you cannot hear from the masters.

If any of you wish to know how to have your bread fall butter side up, butter it on both sides, and then it will fall butter side up.

What you can become you are already.

To be a comedian, you have to have some darkness behind it. I certainly draw on my past, and it helps.

Foreign policy is a little bit like a guy who goes to Las Vegas. If you win too much, then you eventually bet the mortgage. You start to think you are infallible.

Let us remember there is not a poor person in the United States who was not made poor by his own shortcomings.

Here is an unspeakable secret: paradise is all around us and we do not understand.

I even watched Mulholland Drive in French... it didn't make much more sense in French, but I have to say, it didn't make any less sense either.