“We can never know truth, but some stories are better than others.”

We find our power in the same place as our pain.

Good writing is difficult no matter what the reader’s age-and children deserve the best.

You have more people that love you than you know.

The most important thing for me is having a relationship with God. To know that the owner, the creator of the universe loves you, sent His Son to die for your sins; that’s very empowering. Knowing Him and knowing that He loves me gives me encouragement and confidence to move forward.

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.

Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.

The New York that Frank Sinatra sang about, people will never know that place. The New Orleans that Louis Armstrong sang about is the New Orleans that’s still there – it’s preserved.

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.

But you know what? There’s far more pain involved in rolling over, far more pain in hiding.

I don’t know anything about baseball.