"God doesn't make mistakes. So if I'm supposed to die, there's a very good reason for it. I'm not going to question him. I'm just going to enjoy all these beautiful things that God created."

"True greatness isn't so much what you do as who you are."

"Creativity requires risk. So do exploration and innovation. Anyone who thinks outside of the box is taking a risk. Leadership brings many risk. Courage is exercised in the face of risk. Invest involve risk. Decision-making always mean a certain degree of risk."

"I realized my obligations to others should be greater than my obligations to myself."

"If there is a God and you believe in him, you know the best is yet to come."

"We can see God's reflection in everything he created."

"I don't consider myself a “religious” person at all. I am, however, a person of enormous faith."

"I believe God has a specific purpose for me – and for every other person to whom he gives the gift of life."

"I am sensitive to the fact that other people may have different beliefs."

"I believe we have this enormous brains with the ability to process so much information for a purpose – because we were made in God's image, not in the image of an amoeba."

"Evolutionism is to think that a hurricane blowing through a junkyard could somehow assemble a fully equipped and flight-ready 747."

"Evolution and creationism both require faith."

"Faith, by definition, is a risk."

"If we set our priority “the removal of all risk”, we'll soon have sterile, stagnant, and unstimulating learning environments."

"If your priority is to look good in front of people, your life will take a different direction than if your priority is to use the talents that God has given you to make a positive difference in the world."

"My experience has confirmed the wisdom of so much of what the Bible teaches."

"Often the willingness to think differently about a problem and then risk sharing the idea with others certainly pay off."

"That learning process has been likened to the challenge of having someone open a fire hydrant and expect you to swallow it all."

"I sensed I was about to take one of the most important risks of my life. But I felt so right that I didn't hesitate."

"Once in a while, when it comes to taking risks, youthful naivete pays better dividends than do knowledge and experience."

"I learned that with great responsibility often come great honor and opportunity."

"The Bible is a seemingly inexhaustible source of practical wisdom that could serve as a valuable resource for everyday living."

"You can sense their anger before they even say a word."

"We'll always be safe in Jesus Christ if we place our faith in the Lord."

"Every human being experiences risks; some of the risks are common to all humans, and some are unique to the life each of us has been given to live. But I know for certain that risk – both it's shadow and its reality – has shaped my life inside and out."

"Risk played a really important role in making me the person I am."

"Odds that you will die at some point in your life: 1 in 1. Thus, you might say the greatest, most significant, and universal risk factor in death is being born. This implies that it really isn't very helpful to approach the subject of risk by focusing on how we might die; rather, it's far wise to consider how we should live and what risk we will live with."

"The greatest and most valuable resources we have for making crucial decision are knowledge and the amazing brainpower God gave human beings when he created us. That's certainly true for deciding our best response to any risk we ever face."

"Surrendering to fear and allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by peril isn't something most of us can afford to do."

"The more we think about risk, the more risk seem to be."

"Rather than reacting to every risk we hear and see, we should make an effort to discern which ones we can do something about."

"The truth is that everything is risky; life itself is risky."

"Like an adventure who was asked why he climbed the mountain and answered, “Because it's there!” I think our culture has developed this intense love-hate relationship with risk, in part because it's always there."

"How did we become so intrigued by risk – and so worried about it at the same time?"

"If someone in going to die anyway without an operation, then you have nothing to lose by trying."

"Say your prayers. And I'll say mine. Because I really think it helps."

"But no matter what safety steps we take or what security precautions we adopt, our risk of death is not approximately – but exactly – 100 percent. There is no margin of error on the statistic."

"It's a failure only if you don't get anything out of it, Thomas Edison said he knew 999 ways that a light bulb did not work; yet we have lights today."

"I was confident that something good would come out of yet another difficult and disappointing case."

"I now had enough faith not only to believe there were answer, but to feel certain that those answers would become apparent at some point in the future."

"After all my thinking and praying, my decision came down to the fact that I felt obligated to do everything I could to help."

"Whenever I face a hard decision or a risky situation in life (personally or professionally), all my thinking, all my analysis, all my planning can be boiled down to four simple questions: 1. What is the best thing that can happen if I do this? 2. What is the worst thing that can happen if I do this? 3. What is the best thing that can happen if I don't do it? 4. What is the worst thing that can happen if I don't do it?"

"If things do go badly, will I wonder for the rest of my life what I might have done to help?"

"God would grant all of us wisdom, calm, and peace, that his presence would be in the operating room, and that his will might be done."

"So I'm going to say my prayers tonight before I go to sleep. I hope you'll do the same. I believe if we do that, we'll all have less to worry about tomorrow."

"I've never known a case yet where worry helped."

"In our culture, security has become an obsession."

"“Why risk?” I responded. “It should be, why not to risk?”"

"We do not have to compare our achievements with those of others. We need only to ask ourselves one question: Have I given my best?"

"We are still able to grow as long as we are alive."