The definition of what it means to be dying has changed radically. We are able to extend people's lives considerably, including sometimes, good days.

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.

To love someone means to see them as God intended them.

May we celebrate the sacredness of Christmas with joy, faith and hope.

I cannot say that I know Brahman fully.Nor can I say that I know him not....Nor do I know that I know him not.

Life is like a videogame, the harder it gets the victory feels better

When the stakes are high, bow down low.

A visual sense is something you either have or you don't.

What did a few ripples in the flesh matter when, all too soon, now or later, that flesh would be making its return journey to dust?

Men do not so much hate an evil-doer, or evil itself, as they hate the man who calls evil by its real name.

The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as a cat does a mouse.

The greater the teacher, the greater the pupil may become.