Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.

Death is such a strange thing. One minute you're here and then just gone. You'd think there would be an anteroom, a place where you could be visited before you go.

When I'm in the gym, different training partners tell me that I've got great conditioning, and I tell them, 'Really? Because, I'm dying here.' I think that I'm just as tired as anyone; I just push myself mentally.

Death has a way of making us all stop and think about life.

In Syria, a no-fly zone targeted at Assad's air force and safe zones for refugees fleeing the fighting would help tamp down the death toll that plays into the hands of ISIS and other Sunni militants who can position themselves as the only groups that are really defending the Sunni population.