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.

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

It's very important for people to know themselves and understand what their value system is, because if you don't know what your value system is, then you don't know what risks are worth taking and which ones are worth avoiding.

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

Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations; they are there to make money.

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 could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.