“I chose a career in medicine because I wanted a tangible skill with wh...” — Kent Brantly Quote

“I chose a career in medicine because I wanted a tangible skill with which to serve people. And so my role as a physician is my attempt to do that.”

“My 4-year-old son prays every night for his best friend who is the same age - our next door neighbor in Liberia, a little Liberian boy: 'Dear God, please don't let him get Ebola.' I'm proud of him for thinking about his friend and praying for him but that's not a prayer that a 4-year-old should have to consider.”

“When a person survives Ebola, when they recover, they're not a carrier of the virus.”

“In the 20th century, in the darkest period of German and European history, an insane racist ideology, born of neopaganism, gave rise to the attempt, planned and systematically carried out by the regime, to exterminate European Jews. The result has passed into history as the Shoah.”

“I do things like hem a pair of pants, I do my own tailoring but I wouldn't attempt a jacket.”

“I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.”