“Everyone in the world worth being nice to. Because God never creates inferior human beings, each person deserves respect and dignity.”

Rather than reacting to every risk we hear and see, we should make an effort to discern which ones we can do something about.

A great operation on the wrong patient is just as bad as a horrible operation on the right patient. So, you have to have all that together.

What do lawyers learn in law school? They learn to win… What we’ve got to start thinking about is how do we solve problems.

There’s a false narrative that only the political class has the wisdom and the ability to be commander-in- chief. But if you go back and you study the design of our country, it was really designed for the citizen statesman.

I would prefer to just continue to speak about truth and to speak about what makes sense.

I serve God, and my purpose is to please Him, and if God be for you, who can be against you?

All we would have to do is be willing to provide them with some weaponry, some defensive weaponry.

I do not want to get rid of the safety net, I want to get rid of dependency.

Creativity is just learning to do something with a different perspective.

You should see the eyes of some of those children when I say to them we’re going to have to open your head up and take out this tumor. They’re not happy about it, believe me. And they don’t like me very much at that point. But later on, they love me.

I don’t think really conservative or liberal; I think what makes sense.

I think what’s happening with the veterans is a gift from God to show us what happens when you take layers and layers of bureaucracy and place them between the patients and the health care provider.

Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering their points home.

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

We don’t need to set this up as we either take a bunch of refugees who will be infiltrated with terrorists, I guarantee you. For them not to be would be terrorist malpractice. And we need to – to choose the right choice, not these false choices.

It’s a very wise thing for people to rationally sit down and look at what the risks are not only on a daily basis, on a weekly basis, on a monthly basis, on a yearly basis, on a lifetime basis, and then plan one’s life accordingly.

It’s nice when people approach you to help.

I like the level of fame that I have. You get nice tables in restaurants sometimes, but fame isn’t something that I find comfortable.

Flying can be such a claustrophobic experience, it’s nice to open that up a bit with music.

[Henry] James is much more complex than Jane Austen. That’s why it’s not so easy to adapt him.

I’m all alone. There has been no man in my life for several months now and although it would be nice to have a boyfriend.

People expect a nice period piece, but that’s not always the case. There’s a deep human mystery in his work.

It’s nice to think that we have in ourselves the energy. It’s somewhere, but it’s sleeping sometimes. I try to wake it up when I need it.

When I’m flying, I really like to listen to piano music. Something impressionistic, loud and beautiful.