The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap it consoles it distracts it excites it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is there reading...
It evolved from my experience in the fifties growing up during the McCarthy...
A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this get out of the profession.
