...guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.

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.

The kingdom of God is within men.We must manifest the glory of God on earth.

Sicily is paradise. I live in paradise. Now pass the pasta please.

Leave a kiss in my glass I won't ask for wine

You say you will not fight to free negroes. Some of them seem willing to fight for you; but, no matter. Fight you, then exclusively to save the Union.

A woman must make her fortune before she is 30; or work after she is 30; or get married.

The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.

When you're stuck on something creatively, you can't solve a problem, you go to a coffee shop.

My wife had a miscarriage. We have rarely talked about it. It did make me more aware of the sanctity of human life, how precious every child is.

The body is a universe in itself and must be held as sacred as anything in creation....It is dangerous to forget the body as sacramental.