“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.”

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

You need an incredible amount of self-confidence to go digging around in someone’s brain.

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.

People spending more of their own money on routine health care would make the system more competitive and transparent and restore the confidence between the patients and the doctors without government rationing.

Economics is not brain surgery.

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.

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.

Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations; they are there to make money.

We live in a country that used to have a can-do attitude, and now we have a ‘what-can-you-do-for-me?’ attitude, and what I try to do is find ways that we can develop common ground.

The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems. 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.

My strong belief is that God created human beings and therefore he knows about every aspect of the human body. So if I want to fix it, I just need to stay in harmony with Him.

Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.

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.

The P.C. police are out in force at all times… We’ve reached a point where people are actually afraid to talk about what they want to say.

The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly.

A lot of people simply don’t realize their potential because they’re just so risk adverse. They just don’t want to take the risk.

It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.

Often Satan injects pride into the believer’s spirit, evoking in him an attitude of self-importance and of self-conceit. He causes him to esteem himself a very outstanding person, one who is indispensable in God’s work. Such a spirit constitutes one of the major reasons for the fall of believers.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.

I was the kid a lot of other mothers wouldn’t let you play with.

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.