We will empower patients as well as health professionals. We will disempower the hierarchy and bureaucracy.

Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behavior, and they are classic excuses.

I know that nurses are not only the largest healthcare profession but are responsible for the delivery of most healthcare, and are often in the best place to be able to see the whole pathway of care.

In reality, we've had more spending, more bureaucracy, more waste and higher costs but without necessary reform nor rising productivity.

If I'm serious about patients and their GPs being able to have more control of their health care, I can't have a top-down system that imposes restrictions on the services they need.

No decision about me, without me.

I think we have to understand that sugar is an essential component of food it's just that sugar in excess is an inappropriate and unhelpful diet.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Sculpting the future and healing the past can only happen through mindful action in the present moment.

My grandparents - my mom's parents - they're Jewish. But nobody ever pushed religion onto us. It wasn't something I ever grew up with.

Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.

You'll see everything from gold teeth to hood ornaments. It's almost like Halloween during August.

Dear God, please reveal to us your sublime beauty, that is everywhere, everywhere, everywhere, so that we will never again feel frightened.

People often say, "Riots aren't revolutions." That's true. The vast majority of riots never become revolutionary. On the other hand, show me the revolution that started without a riot.

The past has flown away. The coming month and year do not exist. Ours only is the present's tiny point.

Sometimes I think of that and I'm like, "Simone, I don't know what else you can do. What more can you do? Maybe you can repeat yourself." I'll take time off, get out more, go outside more, vacation.

I love writing traditional magazine pieces, and especially their breadth of reporting and the deliberateness of the writing.