Do not underestimate the importance of feeling special.

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?

Be kind. Be happy. Be free.

I don't suppose you have to believe in ghosts to know that we are all haunted, all of us, by things we can see and feel and guess at, and many more things that we can't.

I may like easy choices, but I appreciate the difficult ones more.

Know thine opportunity.

Nothing is true in self-discovery unless it is true in your own experience. This is the only protection against the robot levels of the mind.

No man commits evil for the sake of it; even the Devil himself has some farther design in sinning, than barely the wicked part of it.

You know the world must be flat, because when people leave town they never come back.

Failure is not fun. It can be awful. But living so cautiously that you never fail is worse.

My Dad was overweight and unhealthy, and he died young. I wasn't going to let that happen to me.

I've always done a lot of stunts in the past, and I sound like I'm tooting my own horn here, but I've always impressed the people I've worked with and they've let me do more and more.