Sean

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“We’ve been wrong about what our job is in medicine. We think our job is to ensure health and survival. But really it is larger than that. It is to enable well-being.”
― Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“In God we trust,”509 he brusquely told a journalist. “All others [must] have data.”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies