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.

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

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.

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.

Dogs are very comforting when your world has exploded.

Don’t just be everywhere, be everywhere that your clients are, where you matter most.

The first duty of love is to listen.

A lot of the time in music you get to see the place you play, or around the place you play, but that's it.

I never cease to be thrilled when entering my own gateway... and always feel that entrance gardens should give the first sensation of rest to those returning home.

Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight, they play up that fight. If they can uncover a tragedy, they will headline that tragedy.

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.

Certainly, no church should be involved in trying to set the affairs of the nation.

What happens in Bermondsey on February 24th will be a pointer to the rest of the country as far as Labour's prospects are concerned.

Any great movie in the old days has a red herring. Hitchcock was so good at that.