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

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

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.

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

Try not to turn your mind into your worst enemy of progress.

Poverty is no sin.

The bridges you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there.

There is no one insignificant in the purposes of God.

For me, everything is God. Everything and everyone. So it was just, God needs me now, now, now.

Where there is discord may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. Where there is despair, may we bring hope.

All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs.

I just think it was time [in THe Neon Demon]to do a film about women. But not just women, I wanted to do a movie about a teenage girl. It was a great counter to the masculinity of "Drive."

But years hath done this wrong, To make me write too much, and live too long.

Even now I know it: yes, all my hopes will be fulfilled... yes... the Lord will work wonders for me which will surpass infinitely my immeasurable desires.