If I became just a brain in a jar - as long as I can communicate back and forth with people, that would be okay with me.

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.

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

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.

Is life experiment? Is yours to experience.

The quiet sense of something lost

LSD is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be.

I guess I'd always mocked the American accent. I didn't consider it a respectable dialect, but I was told that it was.

Sometimes an artist is lost and needs to find a new direction for himself or his music.

Winners take the action that others won't.

There is no wealth but love.

... the blinding Hiroshima flash... literally photographed the shadow cast by beings and things, so that every surface immediately became war's recording surface, its film.

Progress of mankind is the decadence of humanity.

I love baseball and I don't want to be part of anything that would cheapen it or vulgarize it.