Over the years my mother's steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures or when I found myself faced with my own medical scare.

Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.

Don't let anyone turn you into a slave. You're a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment are more important than developing your brain.

Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.

Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering their points home.

Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.

Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.

I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.

You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen in your life. Do everything you can - prepare, pray and achieve - to make it happen.

Do your best and let God do the rest.

Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.

Because there's no way on earth she's going to make it through college unless she grows some serious ovaries and turns this train wreck around

Friends are like sugar. When you have them, you'll feel happiness. When you have too many of them, you will suffer.

I was always this guy who appreciated and loved women and supported them and all those little things that were female-skewed, strong women parts.

I wasn't a rock 'n' roll girl. I said, Neil Young, Neil Young, where do I know that name from?

I see my purpose in life as making the world a happier place to be in.

Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.

If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence.

Poverty, the mother of manhood. Also, the mother of prostitution.

The world needs more women filmmakers, so we have to keep encouraging ourselves and one another, and eventually things must get easier for us.

Anything less than full justice is cruelty.