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

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

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.

The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life.

I carry my burdens to the Lord. He lightens my shoulders.

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

The big shift in approach on education that we are taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.

I always wanted to host a show, throw whipped-cream pies. Theater is not my cup of tea.

I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

The essential difference between the unhappy, neurotic type person and him of great joy is the difference between get and give.

It is idle to dispute with old men. Their opinions, like their cranial sutures, are ossified.

I just don't think America wants a female host. It's like men don't walk around in skirts in this country. Why change a good thing?