When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.

Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.

He was teaching me how to die, just as he'd taught me how to live.

We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.

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.

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

In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.