We are guests in our patients' lives.

We must accept human error as inevitable - and design around that fact.

Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets.

Some is not a number. Soon is not a time.

The Holy Grail of universal coverage in the United States may remain out of reach unless, through rational collective action overriding some individual self-interest, we can reduce per capita costs.

It is, I guess, politically correct, widely believed, that to say that American health care is the best in the world. It's not.

Right now, we are doing it blindly.

Traditional medical ethics, based on the doctor-patient relationship must be changed... The primary function of health care regulations should be to limit an individuals own decision-making!

I am romantic about the NHS. I love it.

As a doctor, an educator, an innovator and someone who has dedicated his professional career to making things work better and to helping people – I am ready to lead.

As a doctor, an educator, an innovator and someone who has dedicated his professional career to making things work better and to helping people - I am ready to lead.

Strong people have a strong sense of self-worth and self-awareness

If Roosevelt were alive he'd turn in his grave.

I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.

She thought she was only seeing him because she wanted to see him... It's a by-product of very dramatic kissing.

I think that yoga, it really is a process.

Life can be absolutely phenomenal, and it should be, and it will be, when you start using the secret.

Computers make people stupid.

I grew up in Honolulu. It's not the ballet cultural mecca by any stretch of the imagination. People are much more familiar with hula than they are with ballet.

It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.

I put my soul into every book I write.