Animal experimentation has been essential to the development of all cardiac surgery, transplantation surgery, joint replacements and all vaccinations.

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.

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?

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

The flame of the spirit is burning lamp.

We spend so much time creating a façade of what we want to project to the world, we almost forget what we ourselves are truly about in the process.

Wait and hope!

It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.

Sometimes, you don't realize what you have until you wake up and go 'Damn.'

People find it a great blessing if their child left behind a child.

You can never advance the ball on defense.

We now realize that we're not living in a piecemeal world, but a world where everything is linked together.

I feel good. At this point, the only thing I'm trying to do is accumulate at-bats and get my work in, and so far that's what I'm doing.