You have the quality of your work and the integrity with which you do it.

Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia have been profound ethical issues confronting doctors since the birth of Western medicine, more than 2,000 years ago.

Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously, as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others

Medical school education and post graduate education emphasize thoroughness.

I'm the son of a pediatrician, and I do believe that the most important resource we have is our kids. And I think the most important thing for America's future is to invest more in our children.

Vaccines are the most cost-effective health care interventions there are. A dollar spent on a childhood vaccination not only helps save a life, but greatly reduces spending on future healthcare.

Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical.

An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia.

I am not sure precisely why we need to have privacy, but everyone knows for sure that we need to relax and not have to put on our social, outwardly looking face all of the time.

Guilt. It comes naturally to me as a Jew and a Liberal.

We're all on a continuous journey to try and fix our mistakes and flaws. And, believe me, I've got plenty of them.

I am a result of what has happened on this planet - how could I find the art to say that? I can't, and yet, I am drawn to it because of the enormity of it. That seems really important.

We must recognize that all beings want the same thing we want. This is the way to achieve a true understanding, unfettered by artificial consideration.

Holiness has never been the driving force of the majority. It is, however, mandatory for anyone who wants to enter the kingdom.

I've never thought of my jewelry as trophies. I'm here to take care of it and to love it, for we are only temporary custodians of beauty.

This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if none observe me, I have to observe myself all the closer.

The blindness that opens the eye is not the one that darkens vision. Tears and not sight are the essence of the eye.

The journal and Gansey were clearly long acquainted, and he wanted her to know. This is me. The real me.

Busy souls have no time to be busybodies.

The fighting was fierce and lasted for the greater part of a day; blood ran in rivers.

Optimism can be more powerful than a battery of artillery or squadron of tanks. It can be contagious and it's necessary to being a leader.