On average, physicians interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of when they begin telling their story.

Hope gives us the courage to confront our circumstances and the capacity to surmount them.

I had learned that every patient has the right to hope, despite long odds, and it was my role to help nurture that hope.

False hope can lead to intemperate choices and flawed decision making. True hope takes into account the real threats that exist and seeks to navigate the best path around them.

Hope can be imagined as a domino effect, a chain reaction, each increment making the next increase more feasible... There are moments of fear and doubt that can deflate it.

There is an authentic biology of hope. Belief and expectation - the key elements of hope - can block pain by releasing the brain's endorphins and enkephalins, mimicking the effects of morphine.

Hope is the elevating feeling we experience when we see - in the mind's eye - a path to a better future.

True hope is cleareyed. It sees all the difficulties that exist and all the potential for failure, but through that carves a realistic path to a better future.

Even when there is no longer hope for the body, there is always hope for the soul.

Hope differs from optimism. Hope does not arise from being told to "think positively," or from hearing an overly rosy forecast. Hope, unlike optimism, is rooted in unalloyed reality.

Hope, true hope, has proved as important as any medication I might prescribe or any procedure I might perform.

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

Do what YOU want to do because if you don’t, you are nothing but your own slave.-RVM

Everything is reflected in both - outside (out there) and inside (in here) - marvel at it, experience, learn. The personal is also the universal, and the universal is also the personal.

Our common humanity is neither a rationalization nor a deduction. It is as much a given as our nationality.

My basic rule is, if it could possibly come from the end user, it's not a run-time crash. But if it is my code to my code, I crash it as hard as possible—fail as early as possible.

I love French stuff. Mmmm, french fries.

Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them.

The one thing finished in this hasty world.

Who wants to live in the present? It's such a limiting period compared to the past.

I think there's a huge difference between describing norms in a vivid way and singling out individual people.