“We need to be on a war footing. We need to understand that our nation is in grave danger.”

I detest politics, to be honest with you. It’s a cesspool. And I don’t think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don’t believe in political correctness and I certainly don’t believe in dishonesty.

There is a tendency of people to try to make you believe only a few people are smart. As a brain surgeon, I know better than that.

Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.

You can read the Constitution all you want, it never says that it is the government’s job and I think where we’ve gotten confused.

The culture in which we live stresses looking out for number one. Without adopting such a self-centered value system, we can demand the best of ourselves while we are extending our hands to help others.

You know, I’m a physician. I like to diagnose things. And, you know, I’ve diagnosed some pretty, pretty significant issues that I think a lot of people resonate with.

Do your best and let God do the rest.

Even if you’re Bill Gates, you’ve got problems. I’m sure he would probably easily give a few billion dollars to get rid of all the problems that he has.

God cares about every area of our lives, and God wants us to ask for help.

The doors of the world are opened to people who can read.

I got involved with classical music when I was in high school and it’s followed me throughout my entire life and probably had a profound effect on my life.

The key is to cut out the middleman and empower both doctor and patient with information about what things cost.

Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you’re saying when you’re being a hypocrite.

You pray for yourself and just ask God to give you strength.

Bullies do whatever they can get away with and keep pushing boundaries until they meet resistance.

White liberals are the most racist people there are, because they put blacks in a box and insist that they think one way – and if they don’t, they attack them as illegitimate, all the while denying that their policies destroy blacks.

One of the biggest and most pleasant surprises is that, even when you have that need to keep up an appearance of being right or knowing, there is life after admitting you don’t know and that’s beautiful.

The key to growing a business is that you need to be meeting some segment of the consumer’s needs. If you’ve got a small business and a product or service that is not popular, you simply have to change your product or service to be more popular.

Figure out what you’re passionate about. If you’re not passionate about something, go find it. Because we do not need more unengaged boring people to inhabit this planet.

Figure out what you’re passionate about. If you’re not passionate about something, go find it. Because we do not need more unengaged boring people to inhabit this planet.

The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.

Now, more than ever, we need to connect the dots between climate, poverty, energy, food and water. These issues cannot be addressed in isolation.

Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas – an idea a page.

You need to see a bit of hell now and then. That, and great joy.