Courage is strength in the face of knowledge of what is to be feared or hoped. Wisdom is prudent strength.

This was not guilt: guilt is what you feel when you have done something wrong. What I felt was shame: I was what was wrong.

I said there are at least two kinds of satisfaction, however, and the other has nothing to do with skill. It comes from human connection. It comes from making others happy, understanding them, loving them.

We have medicalized aging, and that experiment is failing us.

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.

Human interaction is the key force in overcoming resistance and speeding change.

I learned about a lot of things in medical school, but mortality wasn't one of them.