It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms.

On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.

The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped.

I believe often that death is good medical treatment because it can achieve what all the medical advances and technology cannot achieve today, and that is stop the suffering of the patient.

Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.

I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.

The individual is the brain, not the heart.

If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of bread he might find it better in terms of pound per mile to go to a massage parlor.

I vowed never again to experiment with such sensitive creatures.

Parables, yes. We here are to lead life with woe. Tasting bitter.the Tai Chi instructor

I never wanted to regret the kisses I missed.

It is the mainspring of life, courage. And courage has many faces.

Friends are born, not made.

Confidence on the outside begins by living with integrity on the inside.

Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them.

I never met a man I didn't like until I met Will Rogers.

Laws that oppress people have no moral authority.

Procrustes was an editor.

Relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority.