Benjamin Carson Quotes

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

When I treat other people with kindness and love, it is part of my way of paying my debt to God and the world for the privilege of living on this planet.

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

And if we can’t get it right, with the relatively small number of veterans, how in the world are you going to do it with the entire population?

And I’ve always said, ‘If two people think the same thing about everything, one of them isn’t necessary.’ We need to be able to understand that if we’re going to make real progress.

I started reading about people of great accomplishment … and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you.

(I’m) the only one to take out half a brain, although you would think, if you go to Washington, that someone had beat me to it.

The kind of job doesn’t matter. The length of time on the job doesn’t matter… If you work hard and do your best, you’ll be recognized and move onward.

The thing that is probably most important is having a brain, and to be able to figure things out and learn things very rapidly.

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