“To hope under the most extreme circumstances is an act of defiance that permits a person to live his life on his own terms. It is part of the human spirit to endure and give a miracle a chance to h...”

“Hope can be imagined as a domino effect, a chain reaction, each increment making the next increase more feasible... There are moments of fear and doubt that can deflate it.”

“I had learned that every patient has the right to hope, despite long odds, and it was my role to help nurture that hope.”

“... omniscience about life and death is not within a physician's purview. A doctor should never write off a person a priori.”

“It took more than science to make hope real.”

“True hope has no room for delusion.”

“Why don't I just go against all reason, ignore past experiences and fall in love with you?”

“It's never the differences between people that surprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.”

“Although I'm an atheist, I try not to crap all over people's belief in God. It may be nothing more than a placebo, a fairy tale that gives the hopeless hope, but sometimes a little hope is all peop...”

“In love madly,traveling though thelife-raft's unravelingin a beautiful tragedy,but gladly i'm stillpaddling throughthe oceanof youranatomy.”

“Before you examine the body of a patient, be patient to learn his story. For once you learn his story, you will also come to know his body.”

“Before you diagnose any sickness, make sure there is no sickness in the mind or heart. For the emotions in a man's moon or sun, can point to the sickness in any one of his other parts.”

“True hope has no room for delusion.”