"On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa,
very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned. " this is about the heart transplant.
"It is infinitely better to transplant a heart
than to bury it to be devoured by worms. "
"Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is."
"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. "
"God made a mistake in creating man but he compensated in creating women."
"for a dying person, a transplant is not a difficult decision. If a lion chases you to a river
filled with crocodiles, you will leap into the water convinced you have a chance to swim to the other side. But you would
never accept such odds if there were no lion."
"I didn't dissect beetles or anything like that when I was a boy. There was no great
event that made me go into medicine. "
"My philosphy is that the biggest risk in life is not to take a risk."
"Laughter is very therapeutic. Anything that makes lilfe less miserable, more happy,
is good for you. That's why sex is good for the heart."
"At almost 79, people ask me: where do you go from here? I say to them I'm on the waiting
list. I don't know exactly where I am on that list or where I'm going, but I'm on it."
