We need to be willing to stand up and speak up for what we believe.

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?

There are days when I want to dip my soul in memories and just soak. Then there are others where I'm praying they'll be washed away.

We have to define future worlds by imagining them first together.Otherwise, we will deal with no man's lands and potential conflicts.

Social media is like a virtual handshake when used by a professional advisor.

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Surrender is not a weakness, or state of inaction, but rather a powerful state of pure energy; the energy of becoming your true purpose.

Sometimes I could quit paint and take to charring. It must be fine to clean perfectly, to shine and polish and know that it could not be done better. In painting that never occurs.

It takes truth, and it takes speaking truth to power, but because the stranglehold is so tight it seems to take something else - a real political threat.

He gaped at the controls. "Why is my ship talking back to me?

Objects let you tell a narrative that encompasses everybody. Texts don't.

On the sixth day, God created the artist, realizing no doubt that He had far from exhausted the uses of color.