If God thinks proportionality is fair who are we to say that it is unfair?

When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it. Every single time you lift off the bone and open the durra and there it is - the human brain, the thing that gives a person a personality, that distinguishes each one of us, that there could be more than 6 billion of us here on this planet with brains that look the same, but each one being distinctly different because of what is going on in that thing. I'll never get over my awe of that.

Everybody has barriers and obstacles. If you look at them as containing fences that don't allow you to advance, then you're going to be a failure. If you look at them as hurdles that strengthen you each time you go over one, then you're going to be a success.

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

Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can't afford to throw any young people away.

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.

(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.