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

We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.

She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.

She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.

When you win, you often lose, that's just a fact. There's no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.

How we treat the least of our brethren,... that's the measure of this country.

Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.