Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.

The artificial heart is very effective as a bridge to transplant, but the number of people that can be saved with human hearts is limited. A perfect artificial heart could save many more patients.

Lipitor is one of the most researched medicines. I'm glad I take Lipitor, as a doctor, and a dad.

This idea that clumsy, stumbling people are real bright is ridiculous, because intelligence is related to neurologic function, and really intelligent people are very well-coordinated.

I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician. I think it's very upfront. I am a doctor. I have long experience with heart disease.

I do not practice clinical medicine and hence do not treat individual patients. My career is in medical science.

I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician.

I knew that my father was going to die of heart disease, and I was trying to make a heart for him.

There is a clear matter that I am not a practicing physician; I have never been a practitioner; everybody has known for decades.

Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. They make the impossible happen.

I accepted the role of spokesman for Lipitor because I am dedicated to the battle against heart disease, which killed my father at age 62 and motivated me to become a medical doctor.

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

At that moment I had no mind to change, or not change, or throw against the nearest wall.

I'm a risk taker, so I have come to accept that at times I will fail. To me, that is better than not trying at all.

Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains closest to the thought that inspired it.

We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are.

It is not always a matter of wild ovations and legendary performances. Sometimes you are just happy to get through an opera without trouble.

I woke up today knowing everything about everything.

Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.

Criticism didn't really stop us and it shouldn't ever stop anyone, because critics are only the people who can't get a record deal themselves.

I want a priest, a rabbi and a Protestant minister. I want to hedge my bets.