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.

That's the only way we're going to get through these programs. That is true compassion. Having people become dependent on others is not compassion at all.

The more I learn about the human body, our environment, and the universe, the more it increases my faith.

Evolution and creationism both require faith. It's just a matter of where you choose to place that faith.

Maybe that's the problem. But whether they've heard it of not. The issue is the train that is going off the cliff. After we save the country, after we keep the train from going off the cliff, I would welcome, quite frankly, a discussion of morality in this country. I think it would be a wonderful thing if we bring back our Judeo-Christian values once again. I think it could do nothing but help us. I would be all in favor of that.

One of the reasons surgeons have so much trouble separating Siamese twins is that nobody gets to do many of them. On the table, the anatomy is so different from normal, that you're constantly trying to figure out, 'Can I cut this? Does this wire lead to what?' It's like trying to defuse a bomb.

If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to resist it.