You have yourself to blame.

Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.

I always think it is kind of funny when it comes to wisdom, and I say God has a sense of humor, because my middle name is Solomon, and I love the Book of Proverbs which is written by Solomon, and I have read from the Book of Proverbs to start and end every day since I was 14.

There is a tendency of people to try to make you believe only a few people are smart. As a brain surgeon, I know better than that.

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

Always give your best and try to figure out how to do an even better job.

If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, 'Oh, well that must be true.'