“I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.”

Quite frankly, having an uninformed populace works extremely well, particularly when you have a media that doesn’t understand its responsibility and feels more like it’s an arm of a political party. They can really take advantage of an uninformed populace.

There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.

Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.

One of the reasons surgeons have so much trouble separating Siamese twins is that nobody gets to do many of them. On the table, the anatomy is so different from normal, that you’re constantly trying to figure out, ‘Can I cut this? Does this wire lead to what?’ It’s like trying to defuse a bomb.

Every time I am looking into the depths of somebody’s brain, I’m thinking, ‘This is what makes a person who they are. That structure contains memories. Everything that they’ve ever experienced is right in there.’

There is so much potential out there in young people and they aren’t getting the right information or being encouraged in the right ways. This is our duty as a society.

I’m not a politician. I don’t want to be a politician, because politicians do what is politically expedient. I want to do what’s right.

There is no one that we can afford to throw away.

You don’t have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the knowledge that you have. And that doesn’t mean you won’t fail sometimes. The important thing is to keep trying.

I have no problem whatsoever with allowing gay people to live as they please, as long as they don’t try to impose their lifestyle on everyone else.

We need to find ways to elevate the expectations, particularly of those individuals who may start off on a lower socioeconomic rung, who might be seen as disadvantaged. But, you know, the reason I say be seen as disadvantaged, it’s because life is so short, and there’s so much that can change.

Our – our friends can’t trust us anymore. You know, Ukraine was a nuclear-armed state. They gave away their nuclear arms with the understanding that we would protect them. We won’t even give them offensive weapons.

There’s no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there’s no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.

What we have to stop and think about is that we have weakened ourselves militarily to such an extent that it affects all of our military policies.

It’s very important for people to know themselves and understand what their value system is, because if you don’t know what your value system is, then you don’t know what risks are worth taking and which ones are worth avoiding.

There’s absolutely no reason at all that physicians, scientists, shouldn’t be involved in things that affect all of us.

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.

To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work.

As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.

By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a fever!

Everybody on our cast is very musically talented, except for me.

At some point in time, you definitely have to go drama. Not to say that you’re going drama just because everybody else does it.

Everybody nowadays rhymes, but out of the people that really, really do it well, it’s still a small community of artists.