Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.

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.

We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.

You live it forward, but understand it backward.

To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.

The Bible teaches that whosoever is born of God does not practice sin.

Animals don't know as much about jealousy as people, but they're not ignorant of it, either.

I learned about lifefrom life itself, love I learned in a single kissand could teach no one anythingexcept that I have livedwith something in common among men.

Until we do something about wild dogs, kangaroos competing for pasture, your fortunes in life aren't gonna turn around.

Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.

To be honest, my goal is very clear. It's to have many people listen to my music. I want to confirm my existence even more by standing on a large stage.

People should be nice to you, Leonard. You're a human being. You should expect people to be nice.

The mind is the world and the no-mind is freedom from the world. The mind is misery and no-mind is the end of misery and the beginning of ecstasy.

Elena, my four year old, says to me in all seriousness; "Mommy, you need to buy another baby".