To become comfortable with uncertainty is one of the primary goals in the training of a physician.

I have not often seen much dignity in the process by which we die.

For aging is an art. The years between its first intimations and the time of the ultimate letting go of all earthly things can-if the readiness and resolve are there-be the real harvest of our lives.

There is, to be sure, sometimes only a small difference between being alert to possible danger and allowing oneself to become terrified to the point of paralysis by seeming or imagined portents.

Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction.

If we cannot heal in one way, we must learn to heal in another.

The dignity we seek in dying is not to be found in our final weeks, days or moments but in the way we live and how we are seen by those people whose lives we affect.

The life sciences contain spiritual values which can never be explained by the materialistic attitude of present day science

Death is the surcease that comes when the exhausting battle has been lost.

Moths and flames, mankind and death--there is little difference.

In the community of living tissues, the uncontrolled mob of misfits that is cancer behaves like a gang of perpetually wilding adolescents. They are the juvenile delinquents of cellular society.

Disregard nuisances and obstacles, for they are merely a brush-stroke on the bigger picture

Why dare to settle for less when there is absolutely nothing less about you?

It never ceases to amaze me that in times of amazing human suffering somebody says something that can be so utterly stupid.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

It's hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don't always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.

In general, the Internet was not designed to accommodate deliberate failures to communicate.

The only way we know we love ourselves and the people in our life is by the agreements we are willing to make and keep

For you to have any relationship with God, it must be through His Word by His Spirit.

I learned a long time ago that place matters to me, on many levels, and maybe more than it should, but it is generally counter-productive for me to resist it.