Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals

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.

Always take an inventory of your life

Are you looking for a wealth in life? Fool! Life is the wealth itself!

The goal of the human experience is to transform ourselves from being who long to attain power in the physical world to beings who are empowered from within.

[Heihei] is stupidest chicken on planet Earth and mascot.

I know if mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.

The next time you are called to suffer, pay attention. It may be the closest you'll ever get to God.

The great difficulty with politics is, that there are no established principles.

I think [Transcendental Meditation] is what people need. They don't need high minded talk, they need results.

As a job seeker, remember this: You only lack experience if they want it done the same old way.

What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past.