Work is a prayer. And I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator.

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

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?

So many broken promises, each day an aborted wish, a lost object, a misplaced unread book, cluttering the room like an attic with discarded possessions.

If you have to choose between the two hopeless situations, choose the one which gives you at least an opportunity to fight!

Victory needs conflict as its preface.

I hate yoga so much. Like, if yoga was a person, I'd stab them.

The human brain, then, is the most complicated organization of matter that we know.

A puck is a hard rubber disk that hockey players strike when they can't hit one another.

A lot of films in Canada are subsidized by the government, and compared to a studio, the government really stays out of your face creatively.

I want literature to open all the doors that I can't open by myself, and to allow me to see things that I wouldn't otherwise see.

Who would recognize the unhappy if grief had no language?

You don't ever ask a barber whether you need a haircut.