“Complex problems are often open-ended and poorly defined”

“any right is always coupled with a responsibility”

“An interesting journey never follows a straight path”

“A vision is not a static picture but a process that gets refined over time”

“Stars cannot shine without darkness”

“Winds shake the leaves and for a moment I smell smoke. I concentrate on the scent, but it vanishes into the aroma of rain and tree bark, the way one life can collapse into another and different people can stir within the same body, like bats thrashing inside a secret hollow.”

“I am reminded of a colleague who reiterated "all my homosexual patients are quite sick" - to which I finally replied "so are all my heterosexual patients.”