I began to realize that poverty was really more of a choice than anything else and that I could change that. And it just really depended on how hard I wanted to work.

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?

in a slapfight with Jesusmy face bleedsbecause no one cut their fingernails back then

Harbour no hatred in your heart against anyone. People who do this have placed their influence on the risky line.

They [Erasers] were bad fliers, " Angel chimed in, "And in their minds, they weren't all kill the mutants, like they usually are. They were like, remember to flap!

The best prayers have often more groans than words.

I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it's been a struggle.

Nor does the idea of a moral order asserting itself against attack or want of conformity answer in full to our feelings regarding the tragic character.

It's true, isn't it, that each of us has two hearts? The secret heart, curled behind like a fist, living gnarled and shrunken beneath the plain, open one we use every day.

I'm a very hopeful person.

Knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

As we express our appreciation of our many blessings, we become more conscious of what the Lord has done for us, and thereby we become more appreciative