The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can’t.

The only similarity between the car and the human body is that if something is seriously wrong with the design of the former you can send it back to its maker.

For many doctors the achievement of a published article is a tedious duty to be surmounted as a necessary hurdle in a medical career.

It is not always worth the discomforts of major surgery to get minor recovery.

Gynaecologists are very smooth indeed. Because they have to listen to woeful and sordid symptoms they develop an expression of refinement and sympathy.

Despair is better treated with hope, not dope.

Too often a sister puts all her patients back to bed as a housewife puts all her plates back in the plate-rack-to make a generally tidy appearance.

Identity is theft, don’t trust anyone whose state vector hasn’t forked for more than a gigasecond, change is the only constant, et bloody cetera.

Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.

I stupidly ignored education completely. I found it dull and I preferred to cause chaos and have fun. I regret this massively now.

If someone committed a crime, they will no longer work in my administration.

Let every man recognize what he is, and be certain that we are all equally priests, that is, we have the same power in the word and in any sacrament whatever.

I feel like I've been becoming more and more like the city I had been living in and creating in.

We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean.

There have been so many outstanding players I've had as team-mates, but if I had to choose I'd choose Giggsy, he can do anything.

Promises were like bad checks, easy to write and hard to cash.