The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.

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.

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.

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

I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.

Ask. Trust. Give thanks. Simple right?

It has long been my motto that if you cannot get your act together... then the very least you can do is try to make your act entertaining.

I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization.

Creativity is what helps me escape a lot of my inner demons.

The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping someone who is even more tired.

Find that courageous yes. Fight for that confident no.

You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day.

Think about that: 81 percent of Americans believe that Obama lies to them at least 'now and then' on 'important matters.'

I don't mind talking about my two daughters, but I don't feel comfortable denying them their privacy.