A realistic expectation also demands our acceptance that one's allotted time on earth must be limited to an allowance consistent with the continuity of our species... We die so that the world may continue to live. We have been given the miracle of life because trillions and trillions of living things have prepared the way for us and then have died-in a sense, for us. We die, in turn, so that others may live. The tragedy of a single individual becomes, in the balance of natural things, the triumph of ongoing life.

If we cannot heal in one way, we must learn to heal in another.

The more personal you are willing to be and the more intimate you are willing to be about the details of your own life, the more universal you are. Everybody needs to be understood. And out of that comes every form of love.

To become comfortable with uncertainty is one of the primary goals in the training of a physician.

The life sciences contain spiritual values which can never be explained by the materialistic attitude of present day science

Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction.

Death is the surcease that comes when the exhausting battle has been lost.