"The important thing is that you've got to have ideas in the first place. And you need to have the passion to implement them."

“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Do not despair if the answers don't come immediately. Some answers are only revealed with the passage of time.”

“[On an epitaph for herself:] Under here, we're all equal.”

“When I asked Fischer why he had not played a certain move in our game, he replied: 'Well, you laughed when I wrote it down!'”

“One single soul saved shall outlive and outweigh all the kingdoms of the world.”

“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.”

“I'm ashamed of what has happened to Canada. And I'm not leaving a $1.5 trillion deficit to my kids. No chance in hell is that happening.”

“We have to be very careful not to blame the patients. A lot of the conversation [around patient engagement] has been, how do we get them to do stuff? To me, that's not engagement.”

Source : "Mayo doc: Stop blaming patients. Healthcare industry’s take on non-compliance is all wrong" by Deanna Pogorelc, medcitynews.com. June 6, 2013.

“The issue of climate change is one that we ignore at our own peril. There may still be disputes about exactly how much we're contributing to the warming of the earth's atmosphere and how much is naturally occurring, but what we can be scientifically certain of is that our continued use of fossil fuels is pushing us to a point of no return. And unless we free ourselves from a dependence on these fossil fuels and chart a new course on energy in this country, we are condemning future generations to global catastrophe.”