You are what you think.

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?

Write about the thing that scares you most or your most private confession and you'll never have a problem coming up with decent fiction.

You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.

The political system loves the extremes, it doesnt so much show a lot love for the moderates.

Governor Romney has paid 100 percent of his taxes that are owed. He has complied 100 percent with what the law requires.

Democracy is an extraordinary adventure. It's difficult, full of daring and risk and danger. But it's the greatest gift we have.

I realized that a lot of the great directors that I admire from [Ingmar] Bergman to [Fredrico] Fellini re always shooting, then going into the editing room, and shooting again.

The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't. Everyone's got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series.

Blogging is like work, but without coworkers thwarting you at every turn.

The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.