I just happen to believe that people are not stupid.

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?

Smiling at death seems like a pretty bold act. And so I smile like a damned fool.

Bistro cooking is good, traditional food, earnestly made and honestly displayed. It is earthy, provincial, or bourgeois; as befits that kind of food, it is served in ample portions.

I don't think [Fifty Shades of Grey is] a model for anything. Except maybe in bed.

The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.

Human beings are definitely changing the planet, but how much impact they are having on climate, I don't know and I don't care.

Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.

It is possible to construct small realities that contain political or philosophical responses, not necessarily just practical or economical responses.

Among all mental diseases that have been systematically inoculated into the human cranium, the religious pest is the most abominable.

Failure is simply a price we pay to achieve success

Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is very necessary to appear to have them.