I think the house call is one of the ways I get an insight into the ways in which people live and the importance of environment in keeping people healthy.

Be persistent. Understand the ways in which your hard work is going to be necessary to achieve the goals that you want.

I grew up with a real appreciation about just how wonderful and intimate the relationship is between a doctor and a patient was and the sense that this was a noble profession.

I grew up with a lot of dinner table conversations about health care and ways in which the system was inadequate for the needs of many of the patients they took care of.

I realized in order to be involved in health policy, you really had to understand more than the individual patient that we as physicians, are taught to think about.

Older patients who live alone can become depressed.

Religion is for people who're afraid of going to hell. Spirituality is for those who've already been there.

A fellowship of secret scholars spent five hundred years on this task. Now we're penciling it in for a Friday morning.

It's a wild ride, this parenthood thing. Hardest thing I've done in my life and by far the best.

Few are they who have never had the chance to achieve happiness ... and fewer those who have taken that chance.

Education should be a right, not a privilege. We need a revolution in the way that the United States funds higher education.

I love to do what I do. So, I do work long hours.

You have to be prepared for people to hate you. Average people love to be average, because nobody bothers them.

Every one of us loves Pauline theology, but few of us want Pauline pain.

I see Maradona every time he grabs the ball and accelerates.

To paint a human figure you must not paint it; you must render the whole of its surrounding atmosphere.