Older patients who live alone can become depressed.

Be persistent. Understand the ways in which your hard work is going to be necessary to achieve the goals that you want.

I grew up with a real appreciation about just how wonderful and intimate the relationship is between a doctor and a patient was and the sense that this was a noble profession.

I grew up with a lot of dinner table conversations about health care and ways in which the system was inadequate for the needs of many of the patients they took care of.

I realized in order to be involved in health policy, you really had to understand more than the individual patient that we as physicians, are taught to think about.

I think the house call is one of the ways I get an insight into the ways in which people live and the importance of environment in keeping people healthy.

In my imagination, I can feel your presence. I can feel the warmth of your passionate hug. I can hear your sweet voice. I can hear the song of your beating heart.

Love, gratitude, compassion, and kindness are the sources of all enduring, pure happiness.

I've found that he way a person feels about cats-and the way they feel about him or her in return-is usually an excellent gauge by which to measure a person's character

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Imitation always stinks. When I take photos, I don't go back. I don't look at the past. I'm always original.

One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.

The enormous energy of the twentieth century, enough to drive the planet into a new orbit around a happier star, was being expended to maintain this immense motionless pause.

Reduce. Do as little as possible to get what you have to get done.

Regular and simple life is the life of God; the chaotic and the complex one is the Devil's!

When the king gets depressed, he doesn't call for his wife. He doesn't call for the cook. He calls for the court jester.