"I do think that I can sing, though I actually like voices I can't imitate."

“There are estimates that 2 to 3 percent of cancers in the U.S. each year are engendered by exposure to repetitive imaging.”

Source : "Why doctors need to embrace their digital future now". Interview with Thomas Goetz, www.wired.com. January 31, 2012.

“Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.”

“We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms.”

“After 19 years of experimenting, a thousand mistakes, over 400 books, at least 200 bad diets... and a partridge in a pear tree, I have found what I believe are the best answers this planet has to offer about living a healthy, happy, and balanced life.”

“Let me say no danger and no hardship ever makes me wish to get back to that college life again.”

Source : Mark Nesbit, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1996). “Through Blood & Fire”, p.24, Stackpole Books

“A civilization has the ethics it can afford”

“Ninety-five percent of people who walk the earth are simply inert. One percent are saints, and one percent are assholes. The other three percent are people who do what they say they can do.”

“Suddenly you're like a pirate, you're 65 years old and you've got an earring.”