We need to be on a war footing. We need to understand that our nation is in grave danger.

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?

All I have learned, I learned from books.

a city is all about how you look at it

I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.

Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe, the realest, most vivid and important person in existence.

I think women are scared of feeling powerful and strong and brave sometimes.

I cannot help but think that great results would have been obtained had my views been thought better of; yet I am much inclined to accept the present condition as for the best.

Sometimes we don't appreciate what we have until it's gone.

I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore it.

I'm not going to have a better day, a more magical moment than the first time I heard my daughter giggle.

Serious music isn't listened to in a casual setting. You don't want to listen to that in headphones on the subway.