I am convinced that there is no smarter, handier, or more adaptable body of troops in the world.
Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction.
To become comfortable with uncertainty is one of the primary goals in the training of a physician.
The dignity we seek in dying is not to be found in our final weeks, days or moments but in the way we live and how we are seen by those people whose lives we affect.
The belief in the probability of death with dignity is our, and society’s, attempt to deal with the reality of what is all too frequently a series of destructive events that involve by their very nature the disintegration of the dying person’s humanity. I have not often seen much dignity in the process by which we die.
For aging is an art. The years between its first intimations and the time of the ultimate letting go of all earthly things can-if the readiness and resolve are there-be the real harvest of our lives.
There is, to be sure, sometimes only a small difference between being alert to possible danger and allowing oneself to become terrified to the point of paralysis by seeming or imagined portents.
First we shape our tools, thereafter they shape us
Well, this would be nice if it worked out, but I'm not selling the farm.
I try not to be judgmental. I meditate twice a day. I get some sort of physical exercise. I infuse my life with love. I love what I do, the job.
I don't think simple is an insult. Something that's really simple and great is probably harder to do than something more complex.