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

I feel very blessed to have been involved with some of the most complex surgical procedures in the history of the world.

Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.

Politics is corrupting the American judicial system in much the same way the judicial system was corrupted in Nazi Germany.

When we are overcome by some evil will, should we not tremble before the presence of the choirs of angels that surround us?

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.

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

If we set our priority "the removal of all risk", we'll soon have sterile, stagnant, and unstimulating learning environments.

[Walking's] overwhelming advantage is that it can be done by anyone, anytime, anywhere-and it doesn't even look like exercise.

Medical education does not exist to provide students with a way of making a living, but to ensure the health of the community.

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

Do you have a brain? Then you can think your way out of it. The reason we have brains is so we can figure out how to do things.

(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.

If you're a Christian and you're running for president and you want to make this into a theocracy, I'm not going to support you.

Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.

Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope.

We create our own destiny by the way we do things. We have to take advantage of opportunities and be responsible for our choices.

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.

A lot of people simply don't realize their potential because they're just so risk adverse. They just don't want to take the risk.

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.

If the corn laws were altered, the British artisan might again be able to subsist by twelve hours' labour, a most desirable event.

The perfection of learning is to know God in such a way that, though you realize he is knowable, yet you know him as indescribable.

I would love us to bring back our Juedo-Christian values and begin to teach those things, at a time other than a political election.

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

God would grant all of us wisdom, calm, and peace, that his presence would be in the operating room, and that his will might be done.

Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.

The element of chance in basic research is overrated. Chance is a lady who smiles only upon those few who know how to make her smile.

It is only requisite, for me to say to you, that the President places great reliance upon your skill, judgment and intimate knowledge.

If we make every attempt to increase out knowledge in order to use it for human good, it will make a difference in us and in our world.

Things that Hillary Clinton advocates are antithetical to Christian values: killing babies, redefining institutions established by God.

A culture exists within the [Ted] Cruz camp that would allow people to take advantage of a situation like this in a very dishonest way.

When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.

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

If we recognize our talents and use them appropriately, and choose a field that uses those talents, we will rise to the top of our field.

If we would serve science, we must extend her limits, not only as far as our own knowledge is concerned, but in the estimation of others.

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

Even after the greatest defeats, the depressing thought of being a failure is best combated by taking stock of all your past achievements.

Wages cannot be considered as a gift, because they are due to work, but God has given free grace to all men by the justification of faith.

Exercise can't counteract the damage being done to your body while you continue to smoke. What exercise can do is help you kick the habit.

Secular progressivism, which attempts to remove God from the public square, is not consistent with the principles that established the USA.

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.

People are starving for that coming out of Washington. And it's not a Democrat thing or a Republican thing. I think it's a politician thing.

Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.

If popular medicine gave the people wisdom as well as knowledge, it would be the best protection for scientific and well-trained physicians.

I am convinced that knowledge is power - to overcome the past, to change our own situations, to fight new obstacles, to make better decisions.

Whoever wins in 2016, I'm pretty sure it's going to be a Republican, I think they should make it their goal to seal that border within a year.

One dark night the skeletons that they had carefully hidden in an obscure closet appeared, grabbed them around the throat, and strangled them.

Why would I want to run for Congress and continue to get tainted with all the things that people get tainted with as they come along the system.

I will undertake to prove that the present corn laws have been detrimental to the public, without being beneficial to the agricultural interest.

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