Benjamin Quotes

I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.

No matter who you are,no matter what you do-do not be too big for GOD.

I grew up in the inner city and have spent a lot of time there and have dealt with a lot of patients from that area and recognize that we cannot have a strong nation if we have weak inner cities.

The kind of job doesn't matter. The length of time on the job doesn't matter... If you work hard and do your best, you'll be recognized and move onward.

Do not underestimate the importance of feeling special.

Creativity is just learning to do something with a different perspective.

We're not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation.

I began to realize that poverty was really more of a choice than anything else and that I could change that. And it just really depended on how hard I wanted to work.

These are just things that we don't know, and that's where trust and faith come in.

I don't think really conservative or liberal; I think what makes sense.

And I've always said, 'If two people think the same thing about everything, one of them isn't necessary.' We need to be able to understand that if we're going to make real progress.

So after a while, if people won't accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.

A great operation on the wrong patient is just as bad as a horrible operation on the right patient. So, you have to have all that together.

I have no problem with being vetted. What I do have a problem with is being lied about and then putting that as truth.

When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives.

There's no such thing as useless knowledge. You never know what doors it's going to open up for you.

The brain can process two million bits of information per second. It remembers everything you've ever seen, everything you've ever heard.

Having grown up in dire poor, the thing that I hated the most in life was poverty.

We are not like dogs who are kind of "What am I going to eat today? Oh, there is a rabbit; I am going to go chase it."

We need to be on a war footing. We need to understand that our nation is in grave danger.

I'd like to be remembered as someone who got others to recognize the potential that was within them.

'Why risk?' I responded. 'It should be, why not to risk?'

We seem to be afraid to give the Kurds weaponry. We like to send it for some strange reason through Baghdad, and then they only get a tenth of it.

I've had a lot of experience building things, organizing things, a national scholarship program.

If we don't get the military right nothing else matters.

If we commit ourselves to reading thus increasing our knowledge, only God limits how far we can go in this world.

If we recognize our talents and use them appropriately, and choose a field that uses those talents, we will rise to the top of our field.

Do you have a brain? Then you can think your way out of it. The reason we have brains is so we can figure out how to do things.

What a wonderful thing is to be able to contribute to the restoration of someone's health. It's not only a feeling that I'm worth something, but that I have something to contribute.

You have to try, you have to try everything you can.

You can understand why I'm a believer. I have seen miracles.

The point is, we can decry the dangers we face or ignore them or even allow ourselves to be paralyzed by fear.

You pray for yourself and just ask God to give you strength.

The key is to cut out the middleman and empower both doctor and patient with information about what things cost.

If you don't accept excuses, then people will stop giving them and will start looking for solutions.

I think God's a pretty fair guy.

Do we have a brain? Than use it. It's all you need to overcome a problem. That's the secret. That's my simple but powerful prescription for life, love, and success in a dangerous world.

If we allow ourselves to dwell on negatives, on hurts, on mistreatments, we will be negative thinkers. So be open to positive thinking, THINK BIG!

Whoever wins in 2016, I'm pretty sure it's going to be a Republican, I think they should make it their goal to seal that border within a year.

If we make every attempt to increase out knowledge in order to use it for human good, it will make a difference in us and in our world.

My favorite subject was recess. Fortunately for me, I had a mother who believed I was smart.

(I'm) the only one to take out half a brain, although you would think, if you go to Washington, that someone had beat me to it.

You know, I'm a physician. I like to diagnose things. And, you know, I've diagnosed some pretty, pretty significant issues that I think a lot of people resonate with.

There's absolutely no reason at all that physicians, scientists, shouldn't be involved in things that affect all of us.

I believe that things are always going to work out, even if in the beginning it doesn't look like they are working out. I know in the long run they are going to work out, and it's going to be fine.

Nobody is starving on the streets. We've always taken care of them. We take care of our own; we always have. It is not the government's responsibility.

If God thinks proportionality is fair who are we to say that it is unfair?

Our children need to see and hear about more black role models in many fields so they can make better choices.

Say your prayers. And I'll say mine. Because I really think it helps.

One dark night the skeletons that they had carefully hidden in an obscure closet appeared, grabbed them around the throat, and strangled them.