“What we need to do in this PC world is forget about unanimity of speech and unanimity of thought and we need to concentrate on being respectful of those people with whom we disagree.”

Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.

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.

By reading so much, my vocabulary automatically improved along with my comprehension.

I would welcome, quite frankly, a discussion of morality in this country. I think it would be a wonderful thing if we bring back our Judeo-Christian values once again. I think it could do nothing but help us. I would be all in favor of that.

Uninformed people can be easily manipulated.

When we feed our fourteen billion brain cells with information that will enrich us and help others, we are really learning to Think Big.

Having grown up in dire poor, the thing that I hated the most in life was poverty.

Politics is corrupting the American judicial system in much the same way the judicial system was corrupted in Nazi Germany.

If we allow ourselves to dwell on negatives, on hurts, on mistreatments, we will be negative thinkers. So be open to positive thinking, THINK BIG!

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.

Why I’ve advocated a proportional tax system. You make $10 billion, you pay a billion. You make $10, you pay one. And everybody gets treated the same way. And you get rid of the deductions, you get rid of all the loopholes.

Went from being an A-student to a B-student to a C-student, but I didn’t care. I was getting the high fives and the low fives and the pats on the back. I was cool.

Do we have a brain? Than use it. It’s all you need to overcome a problem. That’s the secret. That’s my simple but powerful prescription for life, love, and success in a dangerous world.

Patients do better when they have faith that they’re going to do better. That’s why I always tell my patients and their families not to neglect their prayers. There’s nobody I don’t say that to.

Just because somebody happens to disagree with you about something doesn’t mean that they become your mortal enemy and that you should try to destroy them and destroy their life and destroy their family.

Always give your best and try to figure out how to do an even better job.

Sleep is such a potent, liminal state, and I don’t want to drag anything in there that doesn’t need to be there.

Listen to your dreams. They are the whispers of your heart telling you all you’ll ever need to be happy.

Nature needs no help, just no interference.

[P]eople need to use their intelligence to evaluate what they find to be true and untrue in the Bible. This is how we need to live life generally.

I don’t know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It’s so sick.

Artists need to express.

Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.

Day by day we are given not what we want but what we need. Sometimes it is a feast and sometimes…swept crumbs, but by faith we believe it is enough.