4 quotes found
“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.”
“For a dying man it is not a difficult decision [to agree to become the world's first heart transplant] ... because he knows he is at the end. If a lion chases you to the bank of a river filled with...”