I would like people to recognize in looking at my story that the person who has the most to do with what happens to you is you. It's not the environment, it's not the other people who were there trying to help you or trying to stop you. It's what you decide to do and how much effort you put behind it.
Benjamin CarsonI always say if God didn't allow any bad things to happen we would already be in heaven, and we are not there.
Benjamin CarsonDo 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.
Benjamin CarsonOne 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.
Benjamin Carson