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.

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?

Every act of goodness is born from our desire to be happy.

He was foolish enough to fall completely in love with someone who didn't think he had a heart.

Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages - just don't catch him at breakfast. Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.

When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.

A man whose eyes love opens risks his soul - His dancing breaks beyond the mind's control.

I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.

Enthusiasm is the electricity of life

I got bored," he says. "Besides, you know what's creepier than walking around your dead brothers' apartment? Sitting alone in a hearse in front of his apartment.

Government has no place telling you who to fall in love with and who to marry.

You can't win every battle! You must have the word Defeat in your dictionary; if not, defeat will triumph even more strongly!