If there is a credo in practical medicine, it is that the important thing is to be sensible.

No matter what measures are taken, doctors will sometimes falter, and it isn't reasonable to ask that we achieve perfection. What is reasonable is to ask that we never cease to aim for it.

This was not guilt: guilt is what you feel when you have done something wrong. What I felt was shame: I was what was wrong.

School is testing our memory and real world is testing our memory + how we use this which we know.

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'

I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.

You don't have free will when you have lung cancer.

There's no question in my mind but that rights are never won unless people are willing to fight for them.

Sometimes facing opportunity is like staring at the knees of a giraffe.

Grandmothers are to life what the Ph.D. is to education. There is nothing you can feel, taste, expect, predict, or want that the grandmothers in your family do not know about in detail.

Watch the one ahead of you, and you'll learn why he is ahead. Then emulate him.

I drink at least five bottles of water a day and always get eight hours of sleep.

I think I've got the best job around.