Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.

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.

We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.

In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we 'battle' cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation. If we are fortunate, we 'beat' the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having 'succumbed after a long battle.'

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

He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.

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