If 'ecstasy' meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.

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.

If you step on a serpent, it will reply you with its fangs.

You cannot separate charity and religion.

Everything you need to know is within you. Listen. Feel. Trust the body's wisdom.

I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and I'd be out there watching them.

Peacekeeping works in some situations, but it very often needs other ingredients. Peacekeeping is not the aspirin of international security.

As a storyteller, I think where working in television can almost be like lifting weights - you really have to know what your story is about.

I've been betrayed a lot of times in life. I think everybody's been.

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.

Innovation is significant positive change.

The most basic problem is that performance appraisals often don't accurately assess performance.