Successful people don’t have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.
God has given us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Why would God give us such a complex organ system unless he expects us to use it?
If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to resist it.
While wisdom dictates the need for education, education does not necessarily make one wise.
Happiness doesn’t result from what we get, but from what we give.
To do his best, one needs a confidence that says, “I can do anything, and if I can’t do it, I know how to get help.
By reading so much, my vocabulary automatically improved along with my comprehension.
When someone is being particularly mean and nasty, I simply think to myself, he or she used to be a cute little baby, I wonder what happened?
When I was young, I thought classical music was only the background noise for cartoons.
I came to realize that if people could make me angry they could could control me. Why should I give someone else such power over my life?
The human brain has billions of neurons and hundreds of billions of interconnections. It can process more than two million bits of information per second and can remember everything you have ever seen or heard.
Great things were going to happen in my life, and I had to do my part by preparing myself and being ready.
It’s not what you do but that kind of job you do that makes the difference.
I hope we can continue to find ways to encourage integrity in all aspects of government operations
When the vision of the U.S. government included guarding the rights of people but staying out of their way, America was an economic engine more powerful than anything the world had ever witnessed.
One way to develop courage is to consider what will happen if we fail to act.
If you’re good, you’ll be recognized. Because people, even if they’re prejudiced, are going to want the best. You just have to make being the best your goal in life.
If Americans simply choose to vote for the person who has a D or an R by their name, we will get what we deserve, which is what we have now.
If we are to put an end to division, people from all political persuasions will have to stop fighting one another and seek true unity, not just a consensus that benefits one party.
Freedom is not reserved for those unwilling to fight for it.
It’s not what you know but the kind of job you do that makes the difference.
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.
Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.
Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.
With everything that is complex, we learn. If you don’t learn, then it’s an utter and abject failure. If you do learn, and you’re able to apply that to the next situation, then you take away a measure of success.
Don’t let anyone turn you into a slave. You’re a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment are more important than developing your brain.
You can’t allow the forces of political correction to shut you up. I mean, why are people afraid to say, ‘Merry Christmas?’ Give me a break. If people don’t like it, yeah, they can go do something else.
There’s no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there’s no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.
Our strength as a nation comes in our unity. We are the United States of America, not the divided states. And those who want to divide us are trying to divide us, and we shouldn’t let them do it.
I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.
I always pray for God’s guidance in my life and he always provides it. He opens the right doors he shuts the right doors. And I have tremendous faith in him. He just guided my career in an amazing way.
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.
You don’t have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the knowledge that you have. And that doesn’t mean you won’t fail sometimes. The important thing is to keep trying.
We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.
I first wanted to be a psychiatrist. I decided against that in medical school when I discovered that psychiatrists didn’t, in reality, do what they did on TV.
Over the years my mother’s steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures or when I found myself faced with my own medical scare.
You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen in your life. Do everything you can – prepare, pray and achieve – to make it happen.
Evolution and creationism both require faith. It’s just a matter of where you choose to place that faith.
My thoughts are that marriage is between a man and a woman.
Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.
Our – our friends can’t trust us anymore. You know, Ukraine was a nuclear-armed state. They gave away their nuclear arms with the understanding that we would protect them. We won’t even give them offensive weapons.
Nobody is starving on the streets. We’ve always taken care of them. We take care of our own we always have. It is not the government’s responsibility.
This is a country for, of, and by the people not for, of, and by the government. If we turn it over to them we cannot complain about what they’re doing because this is a natural course of men and we have to hold their feet to the fire.
I actually don’t think that I’m that much smarter than anybody else. It’s just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that’s wisdom.
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.
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.