Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia have been profound ethical issues confronting doctors since the birth of Western medicine, more than 2,000 years ago.

Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously, as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others

Medical school education and post graduate education emphasize thoroughness.

I'm the son of a pediatrician, and I do believe that the most important resource we have is our kids. And I think the most important thing for America's future is to invest more in our children.

Vaccines are the most cost-effective health care interventions there are. A dollar spent on a childhood vaccination not only helps save a life, but greatly reduces spending on future healthcare.

Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical.

An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia.

I am not sure precisely why we need to have privacy, but everyone knows for sure that we need to relax and not have to put on our social, outwardly looking face all of the time.

You have the quality of your work and the integrity with which you do it.

Guilt. It comes naturally to me as a Jew and a Liberal.

We're all on a continuous journey to try and fix our mistakes and flaws. And, believe me, I've got plenty of them.

Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives to himself.

you will not be master of my body & my property

When I came to faith, I was on pro-choice boards, and I dropped off of those because you couldn't read the Bible and be pro-choice.

The more you know, the more you see

I wanted to be complete, because I figured that, visually, there was an avenue to explore with painted stuff

Knee-deep in the cosmic overwhelm, I’m stricken by the ricochet wonder of it all: the plain everythingness of everything, in cahoots with the everythingness of everything else.

In scattering seeds of kindness, do it by hand and not by machine.

I do. You know, I made a mistake using a private e- mail.

Only fools seek power, and the greatest fools seek it through force.

I write in bed, too. I find it very comforting. I want to sort of, like, crawl in a fetal position if I have to.