Coaching done well may be the most effective intervention designed for human performance.

Better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness to try.

Our reluctance to honestly examine the experience of aging and dying has increased the harm we inflict on people and denied them the basic comforts they most need.

No matter what measures are taken, doctors will sometimes falter, and it isn't reasonable to ask that we achieve perfection. What is reasonable is to ask that we never cease to aim for it.

You may not control life's circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do with them.

You can't make a recipe for something as complicated as surgery. Instead, you can make a recipe for how to have a team that's prepared for the unexpected.

Arriving at an acceptance of one's mortality is a process, not an epiphany.

Courage is strength in the face of knowledge of what is to be feared or hoped. Wisdom is prudent strength.

Life is choices, and they are relentless. No sooner have you made one choice than another is upon you.

This is the reality of intensive care: at any point, we are as apt to harm as we are to heal.

I think the extreme complexity of medicine has become more than an individual clinician can handle. But not more than teams of clinicians can handle.

If only we could understand the language of the eyes, there would be more love in our world!

The ministry found in the corners of one's life should match the ministry that is put on display.

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

No peace will arrive unless the U.S. or Pakistan want it.

Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, and intimates eternity to man.

For too long, Americans have fallen victim to financial abuses at the hands of predatory lenders that operate in the shadows.

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

Expect the unexpected, and always be ready - everyone has inside them what it takes to be successful. You just have to be ready to unleash it when the opportunity presents itself.

A free and open society is an ongoing conflict, interrupted periodically by compromises.

The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.