1. Relationships can be easy or difficult; we decide individually based on our ego, pride, and unrecognized deficiencies in our past that haunt those who care about us.

2. Many people are smart enough to make it through medical school and can become physicians. What separates the great and gifted ones is the ability to withstand the stress and pressure of making life-or-death decisions in seconds to minutes of assessing a life-or-death situation.

3. One of the most rewarding days of my life was when my children were born, and I looked into their eyes and the world disappeared.

4. Fear? “There is nothing in the nighttime that was not there in the daytime.”

5. In some families, trouble comes by the pound.

6. My life could be worse, I could have married Amber Heard.

7. I heard this quote today, and I do not remember the author, so I apply it outside of medicine. When I work from my heart, everything works; when I work from my head, nothing works

8. Sometimes people confuse my kindness as weakness or meekness. In Greek, meek means “strength under control”.

9. Growth comes from struggles in life’s journey.

10. You never know your true, authentic self in life’s journey until you have been pushed to the outer boundaries of your physical, mental, and emotional capabilities.