Health

Whatever you choose to do, do it with a childlike passion.

Whether through democracy, strong public education, quality health care, or broad economic opportunity—reducing inequity is the highest human achievement.

When we experience our fear, when we say the words 'I am scared,' we have the choice to acknowledge that being scared is not who we are. It is not our identity. And while there is a part of us that is scared, there's also a part of us that isn't scared.

To be a good doctor, a good researcher, is to be one who can listen, assimilate and diagnose information from without, but can also listen and hear what is being said from within themselves.

Pick a company or organization that is dedicated to helping humanity. Then your life will be dedicated to a worthy cause.

It's not a cause, that's an emergency. And when the disease gets out of control because most of the population lives on less than one dollar a day — that's not a cause, that's an emergency.

When we experience our fear, when we say the words 'I am scared,' we have the choice, the ability to acknowledge that being scared is not who we are. It is not our identity.

If you are educated, if you are a doctor with those stethoscopes hanging around your neck, people may not want to come to see you, but they will have to come to see you because you have a skill and knowledge.

Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling five balls — work, family, health, friends, and spirit. Work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the other four balls are made of glass. If you drop one of these, they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged, or even shattered.