I grew up with a lot of dinner table conversations about health care and ways in which the system was inadequate for the needs of many of the patients they took care of.

Be persistent. Understand the ways in which your hard work is going to be necessary to achieve the goals that you want.

I grew up with a real appreciation about just how wonderful and intimate the relationship is between a doctor and a patient was and the sense that this was a noble profession.

I realized in order to be involved in health policy, you really had to understand more than the individual patient that we as physicians, are taught to think about.

Older patients who live alone can become depressed.

I think the house call is one of the ways I get an insight into the ways in which people live and the importance of environment in keeping people healthy.

Hello, I'm Shellie's new boyfriend and I'm out of my mind. If you so much as talk to her or even think her name, I'll cut you in ways that'll make you useless to a woman.

Today is a gift that will be taken from you at day's end. Don't waste a moment, a chance, a lesson. You'll never live today again.

how anxiously I yearned for those I had forsaken.

The world is always waiting on you to show it what you are truly made of through your actions.

If you want to be the best, be the best, if you are not the best, pretend you are

If you start thinking about being likable you are not going to tell your story honestly.

If people tell you that you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe them. Real Life is found only in the present.

I'm the happiest I've been in a while.. So blessed and thankful for the future, for release and to finally be happy for those I loved.

Love is the only real patriation, and without one's dear one sits in a dreary and boring exile.

I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace.