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

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

I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don't postpone your dreams.

My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they'll leave in people's hearts. They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.

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

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 bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.