The artificial heart is very effective as a bridge to transplant, but the number of people that can be saved with human hearts is limited. A perfect artificial heart could save many more patients.

Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.

Lipitor is one of the most researched medicines. I'm glad I take Lipitor, as a doctor, and a dad.

This idea that clumsy, stumbling people are real bright is ridiculous, because intelligence is related to neurologic function, and really intelligent people are very well-coordinated.

I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician. I think it's very upfront. I am a doctor. I have long experience with heart disease.

I do not practice clinical medicine and hence do not treat individual patients. My career is in medical science.

I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician.

I knew that my father was going to die of heart disease, and I was trying to make a heart for him.

There is a clear matter that I am not a practicing physician; I have never been a practitioner; everybody has known for decades.

Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. They make the impossible happen.

I accepted the role of spokesman for Lipitor because I am dedicated to the battle against heart disease, which killed my father at age 62 and motivated me to become a medical doctor.

I entered a spiritual community when I was 20, which I was in for 11 year, with very strict meditative practices, with an Eastern teacher. It was very much like a religious order.

Buddhism is the study of how to be immeasurably happy.

Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.

It is serving God and others persistently with full heart and soul that turns testimony of truth into unbreakable spiritual strength.

I believe writers should be able to write about anything - anything - but there is also a sense in which your lived experience shapes what you write and what you don't write.

How do I transform and be believable as Krogstad in "A Doll's House" or Sir Peter Teazle in "A School for Scandal".

I have been Merlin wandering in the woods Of a far country, where the winds waken Unnatural voices , my mind broken By a sudden acquaintance with man's rage.

God is seen God In the star, in the stone, in the flesh, in the soul and the clod.

I feel honor-bound to have a private relationship with my children. And that's not a judgment about anybody else and what they choose. And that's the beauty of living in a democracy, right?

Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.