It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.

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.

Life is like one big blueprint, if you don't make plans then your future will not be built

The person you're most afraid to contradict is yourself.

Just the kind of girl I liked—the weirdo in the bunch.

No design, no matter how common or seemingly insignificant, is without its adamant critics as well as its ardent admirers.

The improvement of the mind improves the heart and corrects the understanding.

The greater the doubt, the greater the awakening

TV is definitely easier hours.

Forgiveness is the best revenge.

I'm just a socialist at heart.

I'll never be able to really see a film that I'm in.