I think it's a fallacy that only people in elected office can come up with solutions that solve our problems. I just think maybe there's a different paradigm.

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?

You celebrate what works and you take tender care of what doesn’t, with lotion, polish, and kindness.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

Veterans are a symbol of what makes our nation great, and we must never forget all they have done to ensure our freedom.

We say to others only what we need to hear

In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.

An economic policy which does not consider the well-being of all will not serve the purposes of peace and the growth of well-being among the people of all nations.

Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases; she gives us greater courage

'Fabulosity' is to get up when you've been kicked down, and it's not to go after who kicked you down.

Nobody likes to offer stupidity as an excuse.

Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.