The individual is the brain, not the heart.

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.

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.

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.

Every single human being should be the fulfilment of a prophecy: for every human being should be the realisation of some ideal, either in the mind of God or in the mind of man.

There are certain songs I cannot hear because they are so personal that it hurts me to listen.

It's a sign that you have a good work relationship if you don't have to analyze. That's usually a good sign within creative work.

There's the fact that animation is extremely time-consuming, tedious, labor-intensive, and therefore, extremely expensive as an art form to really do it right, to really do full animation.

Without art; without paintings, books, sculpture and music, the human soul would be quite impenetrable, don't you think?

Toil and pleasure, in their natures opposite, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection.

Freedom has always been an expensive thing. History is fit testimony to the fact that freedom is rarely gained without sacrifice and self-denial.

The greatest polution problem we face today is negativity.

When we decide to embark in the service of God, great things begin to happen in our life and the lives of people around us. We learn of Him. We come unto Him.

Freddy Demann (Shakira's Manager) is a man that knows the world of music. And I know that I am in good hands.