Christiaan Barnard

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.

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

It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms.

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?

People on a spiritual path - personal growth, spiritual practice, recovery, yoga and so forth - are the last people who should be sitting out the social and political issues of our day.

In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.