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

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 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.

I like to look for patterns, in science and life. It’s what I do.

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.

A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory.

The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.

Then when Gladys Knight came in to do my songs that was the straw that broke the camel's back.

For there is no business of life, no avocation whatever, which will not permit a man, who has an inclination, to give a little time every day to the studies of his youth.

The schedule of doing a live TV show every week is very difficult.

I've always been interesting in characters that challenge people and who are not always that easy to like.

The motivation to paint seems more pure, or at least more personal, when the artist is doing it for herself.

I teach young people how the arts can be used to stand up against injustice.

Mercy, pity, and peace, Are the world's release.