“We’re not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation.”

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.

Being a doctor at Johns Hopkins does not make me any better in God’s sight than the individual who has not had the opportunity to gain such an education but who still works hard.

The brain can process two million bits of information per second. It remembers everything you’ve ever seen, everything you’ve ever heard.

We need to be doing lots of other things with the resources that we have. So economic power works just as well as military power, perhaps even better. And speaking of that, our Military needs to be upgraded.

Because 9/11 is an isolated incident. Things that are isolated issues as opposed to things that fundamentally change the United Sates of America and shift power from the people to the government. That is a huge shift.

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.