What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?

Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted

A rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth.

When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.

Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?"....I met his gaze and I did not blink. "Words of comfort," I said to my father.

Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.

The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.

No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.

Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.

We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.

You live it forward, but understand it backward.

Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home

...strands of your hair and tendrils of the wind spin into nothingness the memories of that day...

I'm on my high school football team and MUST show how much I know.

The unnatural - that too is natural.

You may have a wen or a cancer upon your person and not be able to cut it out lest you bleed to death; but surely it is no way tocure it, to engraft it and spread it over your whole body.

The revolution cannot be funded. It's not the imagination of trusts and foundations that's going to bring real change.

I think that literary forms are losing their capacity to connect people to issues, to the experiences that feel most meaningful to them.

I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.

It is difficult to go on the next night after you receive a sandbagging.

The necessities of our condition require a thousand offices of tenderness, which mere regard for the species will never dictate.