The battle of being mortal is the battle to maintain the integrity of one's life.

Better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness to try.

Our reluctance to honestly examine the experience of aging and dying has increased the harm we inflict on people and denied them the basic comforts they most need.

No matter what measures are taken, doctors will sometimes falter, and it isn't reasonable to ask that we achieve perfection. What is reasonable is to ask that we never cease to aim for it.

You may not control life's circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do with them.

You can't make a recipe for something as complicated as surgery. Instead, you can make a recipe for how to have a team that's prepared for the unexpected.

Arriving at an acceptance of one's mortality is a process, not an epiphany.

Courage is strength in the face of knowledge of what is to be feared or hoped. Wisdom is prudent strength.

Coaching done well may be the most effective intervention designed for human performance.

Life is choices, and they are relentless. No sooner have you made one choice than another is upon you.

This is the reality of intensive care: at any point, we are as apt to harm as we are to heal.

You get diminishing returns when you are restricted to your comfort zone

May you have courage to pursue thy dreams.

He was teaching me how to die, just as he'd taught me how to live.

I've always been drawn to solitude, felt a kind of luxurious relief in its self-generated pace and rhythms.

As long as a man is alive and out of hell, he cannot have any cause to complain.

If I can bicycle, I bicycle.

You're not gonna be known as nothing if you don't win.

A musician carries the music within him. He needs no specific instrument. he is the music.

What's happening is merely what's happening. How you feel about it is another matter.

I trust Hillary Clinton about as far as I could throw Donald Trump.