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

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

Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals

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

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.

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.

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