Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?

I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.

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.

By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.

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

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

We're losing a ritual. We're losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.