“In my own personal life, God plays a great role in the risk, because I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do – and not only for operating, but for everything.”

If we can take young people who excel at the highest levels, put them on the same kind of pedestal as the all-state basketball player and the all-state football player, and begin to get the same kind of recognition, it will have a profound effect, and we are finding that it does.

Every one of us must fight for it, because we’re fighting for our children and the next generation.

America became a great nation early on not because it was flooded with politicians, but because it was flooded with people who understood the value of personal responsibility, hard work, creativity, innovation, and that’s what will get us on the right track now, as well.

We are more than just flesh and bones. There’s a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can’t measure. We can’t find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it’s there.

Marriage is between a man and a woman. No group, be they gays, be they NAMBLA, be they people who believe in bestiality, it doesn’t matter what they are – they don’t get to change the definition.

What is important – what I consider success – is that we make a contribution to our world.

We are not like dogs who are kind of “What am I going to eat today? Oh, there is a rabbit; I am going to go chase it.”

We’ll always be safe in Jesus Christ if we place our faith in the Lord.

I’m a good neurosugeon. That’s not a boast but a way of acknowledging the innate ability God has given to me. Beginning with determination and using my gifted hands, I went on for training and sharpening for my skills.

One dark night the skeletons that they had carefully hidden in an obscure closet appeared, grabbed them around the throat, and strangled them.

I think of success as reaching beyond ourselves and helping other people in specific ways.

If we don’t get the military right nothing else matters.

People are simply not willing to look at their problems honestly and admit that they have problems.

Beware the abuse of Power. Both by those we disagree with, as well as those we may agree with

Middle East has been in turmoil for thousands of years. For us to think that we’re going to in there and fix that with a couple of little bombs and a few little decorations is relatively foolish.

Successful people don’t have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.