No one ever writes me and says, 'We have a happy hospital'. Nowhere is doing it in a healthy way. That's encouragement for me.

Please live a healthy life - medicine is an imperfect science.

When I hear real faithful people - whether it's a real Christian, or a real Buddhist, or a real Muslim - I hear them use the language I use for a friend. So my metaphor for God is friend.

The purpose of a doctor or any human in general should not be to simply delay the death of the patient, but to increase the person's quality of life.

One cannot separate the health of the individual from the health of the community, from the health of the world.

Waiting in line is a great opportunity to meet people, daydream, or play.

What I really want is a world where no one alive can remember what the word 'war' means. That's my goal.