The same skills that I used as a welder, as a migrant farm worker, are similar skills that I'm using as a brain surgeon.

I'm not a genius. I just worked really, really hard, and I want our generation, our children and our future generations to realize that they can fulfill the same dreams.

You have to have passion for everything you do, and you've got to look at the positive side.

Doesn't matter how menial may be the job that you're doing today. If you have dreams, that will turn into something positive in the future.

I'm just a regular guy. I want people to realize that I embody the true American dream. I work hard. I went to school.

To hear the amount of hate that people have in the United States is disheartening. However, I still have hope that we have not reached the pinnacle.

I'm not a politician, I'm not an economist. I'm just a simple Brian surgeon and a scientist who's trying to do my best every day.

Sometimes I struggled to say something meaningful only to learn that silence is just as powerful as words.

In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk bravery is a rampart of defense.

One of the things that people don't realize is that that natural beauty, those recreational forests, they have an economic development impact for the state as well.

They always try to play with our minds. But that won't work with our club. We've got 20 guys without brains.

When people thank you for doing something, you begin to realize how truly blessed you were to have been put in that position.

There has been a whole lot. Just to combine a musical career with the last year on high school was enough as it is. I didn't think it should fare as well as it did, but apparently it did.

Documentaries are a form of journalism.

You can't live in New York City and be the most important person in town; you just can't. There are too many other important people here.

The golden years become lower-middle-class life revisited. That's a bittersweet ending.

My mum would like to see me on the cover of 'Good Housekeeping' demonstrating children's toys with some nice lipstick on.

I live by 'Earnin' and burnin'.' Meaning, I like to make money and spend it before I even have it. That's the way I live my life.