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

There is a tendency of people to try to make you believe only a few people are smart. As a brain surgeon, I know better than that.

As a pediatric neurosurgeon, I frequently faced life and death situations, and had to come up with the right diagnosis, the right plan, and execute that plan frequently with other colleagues.

It does not matter where we come from or what we look like. If we recognize our abilities, are willing to learn and to use what we know in helping others, we will always have a place in the world.

A good surgeon doesn't just concentrate on technical ability, but also on the appropriateness of what you're doing.

Uninformed people can be easily manipulated.

Obamacare is really I think the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery.

God has given to every one of us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Now why would God give us such a complex organ system unless He expects us to use it?

Our schools too often want to shut people up so they can't talk about real solutions. People who think differently tend to clam up because they think something is wrong with their ideas.

Everyone in the world worth being nice to. Because God never creates inferior human beings, each person deserves respect and dignity.

Education does not necessarily make one wise?

The dance you take with passion and self belief While every step is in rhythm with the honor of your words and the integrity of your daily actions~bns

Everything turns, rotates, spins, circles, loops, pulsates, resonates, and repeats.

What you teach your own children is what you really believe in.

You have to think about yourself and think about where you are and if you're happy. If you feel good and you feel happy, then that's the path you should be on.

Hillary Clinton calls our people deplorable, a large group, and irredeemable. I will be a president for all of our people.

Hearing Oscar Peterson was something that resonated within me. There are so many musicians I've been fortunate to play with. The people that inspire me are the people I play with.

To work from nature is to improvise.

The trick to having obedient, unquestioning children was to have death be the other option

Poverty is the lack of light.

For the love of gain would reconcile the weaker to the dominion of the stronger, and the possession of capital enabled the more powerful to reduce the smaller cities to subjection.