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I always say now it's the indifference that kills patients in the field and different populations. We have to break our indifference towards the suffering of people elsewhere.

Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes.

Today I would say, 'I am against plastic surgery.' It's a grave act. An act that touches our soul. It was frightening.

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.

The more we can purge ourselves of the diseases we create the more we can become magnificent people.

Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.

Humanity will... be confronted with dangers of unprecedented character unless, in due time, measures can be taken to forestall a disastrous competition in such formidable armaments and to establish an international control of the manufacture and use of the powerful materials.

My greatest fear about a world in which racial reassignment surgery becomes common is that it then becomes an expression of all kinds of class privilege. You have a truly dystopian society divided between the people who can afford to be racially altered and perfected and the ones who can't.

The worse thing in the world is for an individual to live, breath and exist and leave this earth, die, and not make impact.