Man is fallible, but maybe men are less so.

Arriving at an acceptance of one's mortality is a process, not an epiphany.

Over time I learned that there are two very different satisfactions that you can have in your life. One is the satisfaction of becoming skilled at something. It almost doesn't matter what the terrain is. There is a deep, soul-feeding resonance in mastery itself, whether in teaching, writing a complicated software program, coaching a baseball team, or marshalling a group of people to start a new business.

When we, doctors, ask patients what their priorities are if time is short, what we do is we use what is available to us - whether it's geriatric care or palliative care or hospice care - to make sure they're living the kind of life that they want to live.

When we lived in a society where we had large families that lived together, especially in agricultural societies like my grandfather and father grew up in, the result is you always had family around to take care of you.

Coaching done well may be the most effective intervention designed for human performance.

I think the extreme complexity of medicine has become more than an individual clinician can handle. But not more than teams of clinicians can handle.