Literature Review

May the best, most random "I don't watch basketball much" bracket win your office pool.

Top o' the mornin' to ya! May your coffee be strong and your day be lucky! ~ Happy St. Patrick's Day from Hospice & Palliative Care Today 

Beware the ides of March! ~Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

Nothing will happen on Friday the 13th that cannot happen on Saturday the 14th.

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts. ~ Nikki Giovanni

Blessed are the curious, for they shall have adventures. ~ Lovelle Drachman

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. ~Robin Williams

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment to improve the world. ~ Anne Frank

Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, ...  So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.' ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations. ~ Dr. Mae Jemison, American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut; the first African-American woman to travel into space, Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better. ~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

I saw medicine as a way to serve those most often overlooked -- to bring care where it was most needed. ~ Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumper, first Black woman physician in the U.S.