Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.

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?

An inferiority complex distorts reality

Man talks about everything, and he talks about everything as though the understanding of everything were all inside him.

The immediate, highest priority need, in my humble opinion, is that we build quickly the interim structures that can channel water away from population and businesses in the New Orleans area.

Nearly everything I do is part of a master plan to make me the most important entertainer in the world.

He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.

It is a tragedy that most of us die before we have begun to live.

I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.

But no one is easier to delude than a parent; they see only what they wish to see.

I have a child and I've made a few people happy. That is all.

Guiltiness will speak, though tongues were out of use