People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.

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?

Hero is he alone who vies with powers supreme!

The humanity we all share is more important than the mental illnesses we may not

Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.

Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.

I suddenly feel left out of a future that isn't even going to happen.

It's not just an economic crisis that capitalism has created. We also face an environmental catastrophe created by a handful of gigantic fossil fuel corporations.

A burthen cheerfully borne becomes light

Marriage ain't easy, but it's great most of the time.

As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.

Look, don't just stare at the pages," I used to tell my students. "Become the characters. Live inside the book.