She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.

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.

غــِـناك َ فى نفسـِـكَ ، و قيمَتـِك فى عمــَلـِـك ، و بواعثـُك أحرى بالعناية من غاياتك ، و لا تنتظر من الناس كثيرا ً

We did not decide to be born hence

There are few things more destructive than thoughts believed without question.

All these mirrorscarnival distortionsof selves we never were.

The idea of achieving security through national armament is, at the present state of military technique, a disastrous illusion.

So many of today's programs are about trophies and jackets, and we think that's a big mistake.

I thought Britney Spears was absolutely marvelous in the beginning. But now I think she's gone off the deep end.

When we begin to see each other through what the metaphysician calls, the third eye, we begin to know each other on a level that is beyond what our physical eyes can see.

Consider as sin any minute of life spent on something other than saving souls for eternity from this world doomed to destruction.

The visible is how we orient ourselves. It remains our principal source of information about the world. Painting reminds us of what is absent. What we don't see anymore.