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.

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.

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

You know how cats do. They hide to die. Dogs come home.

Sometimes that’s what it takes. Putting it all out there and hoping love wins.

A growing body of research suggests that many of the health problems associated with eating beef are really problems with corn-fed beef.

I couldn't decide what kind of person she was, whether she was one of those insects that look exactly like wasps but aren't . . . I just wanted to know if she would sting.

Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things.

I think any time you're in a new relationship, there's so much to look forward to.

Hope you'll forgive me, never meant wrong. Tried to be patient, but waited too long. But I would've came back.. But I would've came back for you.

The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.

In boxing, you don't know what's going to happen. In wrestling, it's already prearranged.

You look around baseball and when things go south, that type of fan apathy happens.