“Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration,motivation, and a pinch of creativity”

“Success is not in what you have, but who you are.”

“Communication is about being effective, not always about being proper.”

“There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.”

“If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history.”

“While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.”

“No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”

“All my life I've been surrounded by people who are smarter than I am, but I found I could always keep up by working hard.”

“Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven't got even that much, however loveless and boring--this is one of the harshest human miseries.”

“The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.”

“At the age of 45, most days in Tucson were spent feeling like I was on the summit of Mauna Kea, as I was exhibiting debilitating health symptoms that corresponded to what I saw at very high altitud...”

“The hour is only long thus, if you've waited.”

“I simply wish to continue to learn, & try to do what I have to do, better.”

“With tens of thousands of patients dying every year from preventable medical errors, it is imperative that we embrace available technologies and drastically improve the way medical records are hand...”

“Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.”