Just using a checklist requires [doctors] to embrace different values from ones we've had, like humility, discipline, teamwork.

Better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness to try.

Our reluctance to honestly examine the experience of aging and dying has increased the harm we inflict on people and denied them the basic comforts they most need.

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.

You may not control life's circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do with them.

You can't make a recipe for something as complicated as surgery. Instead, you can make a recipe for how to have a team that's prepared for the unexpected.

Arriving at an acceptance of one's mortality is a process, not an epiphany.

Courage is strength in the face of knowledge of what is to be feared or hoped. Wisdom is prudent strength.

Coaching done well may be the most effective intervention designed for human performance.

Life is choices, and they are relentless. No sooner have you made one choice than another is upon you.

This is the reality of intensive care: at any point, we are as apt to harm as we are to heal.

Every time you ask for forgiveness, you declare that your life does not belong to you, but has been created for the purpose of Another.

Her love has been always unrequited, but until now it wasn't real love. Now it hurts, and that's how she knows it is real.

I would act whether or not I was paid. I would be involved in ensemble groups. I would have the desire to tell stories.

Funny how a wife can spot a blonde hair at twenty yards, yet miss the garage doors.

I glory in the conflict, that I may hereafter exult in the victory. I know that victory is certain.

Imagine a world, in which your entire possession is one raspberry, and you give it to your friend.

I deeply believe that men and women need each other.

You know, my mother never thought I would do anything good in my life, and I was standing in this opera with four gold medals! If she were alive, maybe she'd think I was doing well!

I was never a man of great ambition I cried too easily I didn't have a head for science Words often failed me While others prayed I only moved my lips

I know Bret Easton Ellis has said he has some amount of empathy for every character he has written about, though, so maybe I am similar to him in terms of that. I'm not sure what he thinks exactly.