If we set our priority "the removal of all risk", we'll soon have sterile, stagnant, and unstimulating learning environments.

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?

Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either.

To pursue happiness for its own sake is the surest way to lose it.

The adversary would keep us busily engaged in a multitude of trivial things in an effort to keep us distracted from the few vital things that make all the difference.

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Let all our employment be to know God: the more one knows Him, the more one desires to know Him.

Science advances, not by the accumulation of new facts, but by the continuous development of new concepts.

I went on to Cincinnati. I had got a taste of the big cities and them bright lights. I stayed there until I was about 18 or 19 and then I went on to Detroit.

When something irritates me, I don't go home and write; I just don't do that.

Well, I am a Christian who believes that there are certainly many more paths to God other than Christianity.

The real work is in the practice.