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.

This was not guilt: guilt is what you feel when you have done something wrong. What I felt was shame: I was what was wrong.

If there is a credo in practical medicine, it is that the important thing is to be sensible.

Geckos could caught by hand, but they could be found in the men's room.

Happiness is a state of mind. your state of mind. So you should have some say in it

I always say centered food equals centered behavior.

All of us would like to believe that if we were in a bad situation someone would help us.

Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.

To end cronyism we must end government's ability to dole out favors and rig the market.

The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away.

It's so much easier to have a crush on someone who you know isn't going to respond-it makes it nice and safe and you never have to humiliate yourself by getting knocked back.

My ground is the Bible. Yea, I am a Bible-bigot. I follow it in all things, both great and small.

But there are wanderers o'er Eternity Whose bark drives on and on, and anchor'd ne'er shall be.