Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.

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.

The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.

Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.

I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net. Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care ... it is another story altogether.

I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.

The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?