The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don't. If you keep saying your slippers aren't yours, then you'll die searching, you'll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more. Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.

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

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

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.

What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?

The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.

The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.