Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.

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.

I love my old paintings as postulates as fresh starting points but I have to destroy them. I have to make a new manifesto.

We can solve all problems not by finding solutions, but by transcending consciousness to a new level.

Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.

Strange how much you've got to know Before you know how little you know.

I try to teach my kids to be open.

Peace the offspring is of Power.

Learn to love, respect and enjoy other people.

When you listen carefully to the soundscape it becomes quite miraculous.

There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.

Women need a space to be creative -- creativity thrives in solitude.