The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.

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.

In simple words, whatever you were born to do, you were equipped to do it. You are a whole equipment for success!

We overemphasise miracles when we are supposed to be planning and be thinking forward.

I always wanted to make people feel something.

Next to the coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.

In my mind I'm going to Carolina. Can't you see the sunshine, can't you just feel the moonshine? Ain't it just like a friend of mine, to hit me from behind, and I'm goin' to Carolina in my mind.

What would aliens say when told earthlings shift clocks twice a year to fool themselves into thinking there's more sunlight?

I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.

One of the important things about being a small-town reporter is knowing what not to put in the paper.

The man whose silent daysIn harmless joys are spent,Whom hopes cannot delude,Nor sorrow discontent:That man needs neither towersNor armour for defence,Nor secret vaults to flyFrom thunder's violence.

It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.