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.

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.

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.

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

Hephaestus glowered up at us. “I didn’t make you, did I?”Uh, ” Annabeth said, “no, sir.”Good, ” the god grumbled. “Shoddy workmanship.

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

I used to want to fix people, but now I just want to be with them.

Well, we have seen a wonder. We ought to count our blessings.

There are as many types of non-dualities as there are dualities.

Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.

In life one must decide whether to conjugate the verb to have or the verb to be.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting!

part of the humor of living on this backward planet is listening to the hominids rationalize their predations.

I urge you to set a tough, quantitative target for adding "differentiators" as I call them, to every service you provide.