Hope is the elevating feeling we experience when we see - in the mind's eye - a path to a better future.

Hope, true hope, has proved as important as any medication I might prescribe or any procedure I might perform.

Hope can be imagined as a domino effect, a chain reaction, each increment making the next increase more feasible... There are moments of fear and doubt that can deflate it.

Even when there is no longer hope for the body, there is always hope for the soul.

I had learned that every patient has the right to hope, despite long odds, and it was my role to help nurture that hope.

True hope is cleareyed. It sees all the difficulties that exist and all the potential for failure, but through that carves a realistic path to a better future.

On average, physicians interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of when they begin telling their story.