We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.

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.

An adaptive mind has better learning capability.

Surround yourself with positive people who ignite your energy and spirit.

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

To get it first is important - but more important is to get it right.

Growing up, I was such a picky eater. I'm finally starting to expand.

Nothing seems interesting when it belongs to you, only when it doesn't.

Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.

Anyone of my generation who trusts government probably has an I.Q. that would make a good golf score.

You don't need 70 people in a White House press conference to tell people what happened there. You need a camera and maybe a couple reporters, and that's it.