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

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

Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.

There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-

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

She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life... As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.

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