Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next.

I consider myself a logical person and, you know, a lot of people try to categorize me in one way or another.

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

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.

I began to realize that poverty was really more of a choice than anything else and that I could change that. And it just really depended on how hard I wanted to work.

'Why risk?' I responded. 'It should be, why not to risk?'

When I was 14, I tried to stab someone.