We're all on a continuous journey to try and fix our mistakes and flaws. And, believe me, I've got plenty of them.

Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia have been profound ethical issues confronting doctors since the birth of Western medicine, more than 2,000 years ago.

Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously, as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others

Medical school education and post graduate education emphasize thoroughness.

I'm the son of a pediatrician, and I do believe that the most important resource we have is our kids. And I think the most important thing for America's future is to invest more in our children.

Vaccines are the most cost-effective health care interventions there are. A dollar spent on a childhood vaccination not only helps save a life, but greatly reduces spending on future healthcare.

Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical.

An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia.

I am not sure precisely why we need to have privacy, but everyone knows for sure that we need to relax and not have to put on our social, outwardly looking face all of the time.

You have the quality of your work and the integrity with which you do it.

Guilt. It comes naturally to me as a Jew and a Liberal.

Greatness is never achieved in the realm of dreams but in the realm of reality and the only way to achieving that greatness is to convert your time into added value to yourself and then to others.

To the inexperienced and naive, creativity often looks like magic. But in truth creativity is rooted in the fertile grounds of knowledge and many hours of hard work and thinking.

The only prayer which a well-meaning man can pray is O ye gods give me whatever is fitting unto me!

My mom loved rock 'n roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around.

Turns out, you can take the girl out of the spy school, but you can never take the spy school out of the girl.

The complexities of cause and effect defy analysis.

He was a puzzle. And Hyacinth hated puzzles. Well, no, in truth she loved them. Provided, of course, that she solved them.

Where there is love there is courage, where there is courage there is peace, where there is peace there is God. And when you have God, you have everything.

The class of those who have the ability to think their own thoughts is separated by an unbridgeable gulf from the class of those who cannot.

You can't have a better past.