Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.

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.

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

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.

But having said that, there's also a sea change in attitude towards media.

I've never had any religion. I'd prefer it if I did, really. Even as a boy I just couldn't make myself believe.

I do not know what horrified me most [during the depression]: the economic misery of my companions [or] their moral and ethical coarseness.

If we can still love those who have made us suffer, we love them all the more.

Aziz winked at him slowly and said: “...There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.

My duchess,” James stated, his eyes sweeping the crowd with the air of a man who has ruled the waves. “She is not a swan, because that would imply she had once been an ugly duckling.

If I go on talking and talking...and telling you things about pretending, I shall bear it better. You don't forget, but you bear it better.

I used to sing Bill Monroe songs. And I'd sing Dennis Day songs like songs that he sang on the Jack Benny show.

None of [candidates] are saying the right thing to save America. She is in deep trouble. Hillary [Clinton] will take you there, [Donald] Trump will take you there.

Throwing blondes at Locke Lamora was not unlike throwing lettuce at sharks.