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.

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.

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.

I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud. ”—Psychiatrist Dr. Carl Jung in a 1919 address to the Society for Psychical Research in England

We are all bodybuilders, so build the house you want to live in.

Nobody wants to kiss when they are hungry.

Energy speaks through dreams....are you listening?

It's very easy for people to put out music.

The work of art... is an instrument for tilling the human psyche, that it may continue to yield a harvest of vital beauty.

In my business, if you look good, no one is going to be checking up on whether you work out. So it's up to me.

The key to power, then, is the ability to judge who is best able to further your interests in all situations. Keep friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent.

To many women mistake a man's hostility for wit and his silence for depth.

I have no problems with the NC-17 rating. I want more NC-17 films. More adult cinema!