When you immerse yourself in medicine you realise that hope is not absolute. It's not that simple.

Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients.

Pharmacology is benefited by the prepared mind. You need to know what you are looking for.

History repeats, but science reverberates.

I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.

All cancers are alike but they are alike in a unique way.

Cancer was not disorganized chromosomal chaos. It was organized chromosomal chaos

There is a very moving and ancient connection between cancer and depression.

Down to their innate molecular core, cancer cells are hyperactive, survival-endowed, scrappy, fecund, inventive copies of ourselves.

A positive attitude does not cure cancer, any more than a negative one causes it.

One swallow is a coincidence, but two swallows make summer.

The Holy Scripture is like a diamond: in the dark it is like a piece of glass, but as soon as the light strikes it the water begins to sparkle, and the scintillation of life greets us.

For me, the bulimia was about stuffing my emotions. So I stopped suppressing my feelings.

Be who you want to be, do what it takes to be that way, and in time, you will have what you want in life.

My church accepts all denominations - fivers, tenners, twenties.

Some of the most exciting space education in the country is not coming out of Washington or New York or California or even Texas. It's coming from a place in Kansas called the Cosmosphere.

Love is ownership. We own whom we love. The universe is God's because He loves.

Demonstrate to the world there is "No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy" than a U.S. Marine.

Rather than look at a marriage as two people morphing into one thing, you could see two individuals who are choosing to form a partnership.

Please understand. Please forgive me. I prayed every day for you to be alive, until hope became painful. Don't hate me. I still love you.

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!