Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.

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.

For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.

Destroy all the barriers inside you and accept everyone with love. We are in each other all along. Be nonjudgmental but be loving. Find the perfection in imperfection and be happy.

If that phone ain't ringing, I assume it still ain't you" Randy Travis

I felt that, in retrospect, there was a time in the late Seventies, after I had a string of hits and successes, as a performer and a recording artist, that I wasn't saying anything.

The movie industry places such importance on first-week numbers-which means what to people, I don't know. It's very strange. They hope to sell tons of records the first week, and then what?

I strongly believe that journalism is one of the most noble professions, because without an informed world, and without an informed society, we are weak, we are weak.

I don't have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well, it kind of does - and I'm much more pragmatic about romance than I used to be.

The same stimulus that animates men to action, will have a proportionate effect on juvenile minds.

Oftentimes when kids are left with their grandparents they're not agile enough to keep up with all of the things that they're going through.

It is certainly true that a popular government cannot flourish without virtue in the people.