It is, I guess, politically correct, widely believed, that to say that American health care is the best in the world. It's not.

We must accept human error as inevitable - and design around that fact.

Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets.

Some is not a number. Soon is not a time.

We are guests in our patients' lives.

The Holy Grail of universal coverage in the United States may remain out of reach unless, through rational collective action overriding some individual self-interest, we can reduce per capita costs.

Right now, we are doing it blindly.

Traditional medical ethics, based on the doctor-patient relationship must be changed... The primary function of health care regulations should be to limit an individuals own decision-making!

I am romantic about the NHS. I love it.

As a doctor, an educator, an innovator and someone who has dedicated his professional career to making things work better and to helping people – I am ready to lead.

As a doctor, an educator, an innovator and someone who has dedicated his professional career to making things work better and to helping people - I am ready to lead.

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

Sometimes life decides that we must also take care of ourselves in other ways and love, the way we perceive it, must reflect only upon us.

The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist.

I think ring rust is an excuse people use when they don't box well.

George Washington’s brother, Lawrence, was the Uncle of Our Country.

Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.

Telling about our lives is important for those who come after as, for those who will see our experience as part of their own historical struggle.

In an age of relativism, orthodoxy is the only possible rebellion left

A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.

You don't have to become a slave in a corporate office or groupie of a celebrity architect, because all you need is a piece of paper, a pencil and the desire to make architecture.