I wanted to be a surgeon, possibly influenced by the qualities of our family doctor who cared for our childhood ailments.

You cannot stop the human mind from working.

Its the best time ever to be a doctor because you can heal and treat conditions that were untreatable even a few years ago.

Animal experimentation has been essential to the development of all cardiac surgery, transplantation surgery, joint replacements and all vaccinations.

And I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator.

To the patient, any operation is momentous.

I was performing skin grafts and became interested in why skin wouldn't graft permanently.

I've never regretted a swim

The slow rejection of the foreign skin grafts fascinated me. How could the host distinguish another person's skin from his own?

Work is a prayer. And I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator.

As long as you're in the food business, why not make sweets?

Thou shouldst eat to live not live to eat.

Anger is a transient hatred or at least very like it.

Hollywood changed to become a more marketing-driven Hollywood, where people who are running the studios are more like marketing people, and they need titles.

I hate news and information and anything that threatens to puncture the bubble of oblivion in which I live.

I'm from a time and place where bigheadedness was a really savage crime, and you'd get cut down for it by your peers and parents.

Those who advocate devaluation are calling for a reduction in the wage levels and the real wage standards of every member of the working class.

The Turkish road is not my model because I am critical of the way you are dealing with freedom of expression, of how you are dealing with the treatment of minorities, and your economic vision.

...people of old deemed freedom from greed precious, and this is how they got beyond the world.