I'm not a politician, I'm not an economist. I'm just a simple Brian surgeon and a scientist who's trying to do my best every day.

I'm not a genius. I just worked really, really hard, and I want our generation, our children and our future generations to realize that they can fulfill the same dreams.

You have to have passion for everything you do, and you've got to look at the positive side.

Doesn't matter how menial may be the job that you're doing today. If you have dreams, that will turn into something positive in the future.

The same skills that I used as a welder, as a migrant farm worker, are similar skills that I'm using as a brain surgeon.

I'm just a regular guy. I want people to realize that I embody the true American dream. I work hard. I went to school.

To hear the amount of hate that people have in the United States is disheartening. However, I still have hope that we have not reached the pinnacle.

Sometimes I struggled to say something meaningful only to learn that silence is just as powerful as words.

Stephen Douglas's oratory was designed for the galleries, Lincoln's for his peers

You can't explain your life: you have to reveal it.

I think women are just as gifted when it comes to science as men are. But I think their wishes and desires are different and this is also shaped by the society in which they live.

Margaret Thatcher was the first political leader in any major country to warn of the dangers of climate change

The thing I like about acting is being able to lose yourself completely in someone else.

The truth, it needs no proof. Either it is or it isn't.

It's beautiful when you watch something good happen to somebody when it's well deserved.

When a stray animal crosses your path, it may be as close to God as you're going to get in this lifetime.

[...] each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves

A son ain't what a woman say. A son is what a man do.