I think of L.A. as truly the melting pot. It’s basically a mini country unto itself.

We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.

I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient.

It's unconscionable that cancer patients get the wrong diagnosis 30 percent of the time and that it takes so long to treat them with appropriate drugs for their cancer.

I want to do transformational work to actually fix the world.

I'm a physician. I've been blessed with ideas and resources to use technology to make the world a better place. That's what I would like to leave behind.

The pancreas is by far the most complex organ in the body.

The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster.

I love doing a lot of things I'm told I can't do. I think that's what drives me and keeps me awake every day.

You don't inherit cancer; you actually get it.

We need to and must protect privacy. But I think that people will be willing and even eager to share medical information about themselves for the greater good of mankind.

Water will not flow from a faucet that is not connected to its source.

what is not true does not exist in this moment.

Let your dreams outgrow the shoes of your expectations.

Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.

Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

Why do you always insist on playing while I'm trying to conduct?

Africa's downfall has always been the cult of the personality. And their names always seem to begin with M. We've had Mobutu and Mengistu and I'm not going to add Meles to the list.

Individuals who were submerged in reality, merely feeling their needs, emerge from reality and perceive the causes of their needs.

The difference between a professional person and a technician is that a technician knows everthing about his job except its ultimate purpose and his place in the scheme of things.