Start Me Up (Season 7, Episode 12)

People are really romantic about the beginnings of things.  Fresh start.  Clean slate.  A world of possibility.  But, no matter what new adventure you're embarking on, you're still you.  You bring you into every new beginning in your life, so how different can it possibly be? 

It's all anybody wants, right?  Clean slate.  A new beginning.  Like that's going to be any easier.  Ask the guy pushing the boulder up the hill.  Nothing's easy about starting over. 

Disarm (Season 7, Episode 11)

To a degree, medicine is a science, but I would argue that it's also an art.  The doctor's who see medicine as science only?  You don't want them by your side when your bleeding won't stop, or when your child is screaming in pain.  The clinicians go by the book.  The artists follow their guts.  The artists feel your pain, and they go to extremes to make it stop.  Extreme measures.  That's where science ends, and art begins. 

Surgery is extreme.  We cut into your body, take out pieces, put what's left, back together. 

Good thing life doesn't come with a scalpel, because if it did, when things started to hurt, we would just cut and cut and cut.  The thing is, what we take away with a scalpel, we can't ever get back.  So... like I said... good thing.