I actually consider myself as totally privileged to be able to serve science and medicine in a global fashion, because science and medicine know no boundaries.

I dont have any regrets. I consider myself really privileged to belong to medicine and do what I do. I would do it all again.

What I worry about is the lack of understanding in society around the world that there is a divide in the world between those who have and those who do not.

As a heart surgeon I am on constant call, and when not researching or giving lectures, I like to be with my family.

My dad was a surgeon in Egypt. He was a general surgeon. As a little boy I always admired what he was doing, and I wanted to do surgery.

I have a charity called the Chain Of Hope, where we target children from poor areas where heart surgery is not available, and we offer our services.

It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.

Life is the greatest gift.

The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists

One of the greatest dangers of great dreams in your youth is waking up to despair as an adult.

Oh, so you see some chick in baggy jeans and a hoodie, and you just have to have her so bad, you decide to repeat high school, just to get her?" "Sounds about right." He laughs.

Secret thinker sometimes listening aloud.

What I'd like to be is a unique writer who's different from everybody else. I want to be a writer who tells stories unlike other writers'.

Curiosity doesn't matter anymore. These days people don't want to be transported to emotional territories where they don't know how to react.

Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little then to break

You need at least eight or nine men in a ten-man wall.

If you're a freelance writer and aren't used to being ignored, neglected, and generally given short shrift, you must not have been in the business very long.