"I'm the luckiest broad in Hollywood now. To be the lead actor on Scandal and to be in the highest-earning Tarantino movie-I don't get to ask for more."

"I realized that I don't have to be perfect. All I have to do is show up and enjoy the messy, imperfect and beautiful journey of my life. It's a trip more wonderful than I could have imagined."

"Your life is your story and the adventure ahead of you is the journey to fulfill your own purpose and potential."

"In real life, I'm just an actor. I play pretend. I tell stories."

"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."

"What is important – what I consider success – is that we make a contribution to our world."

"Do your best and let God do the rest."

"As I continue to develop my relationship with Him, I have discovered that God is a nice guy."

"It is important to call on God to intervene in our life, especially when we reach the point where we ourselves have become helpless."

"We cannot allow ourselves to be prejudiced against a subject, based upon what someone else has said or just upon the difficulty we encounter in learning."

"In-depth learning means learning as much about a topic as possible – learning for the sake of knowledge and understanding itself as opposed to learning for the sake of passing a test with high grades or trying to impress people."

"The mind, once stretched by an idea, never returns to its original dimension."

"Knowledge is the key that unlocks all the doors. You can be green-skinned with yellow polka dots and come from Mars, but if you have knowledge that people need, instead of beating you, they'll beat a path to your door."

"Knowledge make us valuable. When we have knowledge that other people do not readily have, somebody need us. It does not matter what we look like, or where we came from, if we have something that others have a need for."

"You never know how useful even seemingly insignificant knowledge can be."

"Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself."

"Not only we can say that we cannot overload our brain, but we also know that our brain retains everything. The difficulty does not come with the input of information, but in getting it out."

"Being nice always comes back to repay us in the long run."

"God don't make no junk."

"Not prejudge others – not decide their value before knowing them."

"Be nice to every-body. You meet the same people going up as you meet going down."

"It is not where we have come from but where we are going that counts!"

"Although we all make mistakes in life, the problems occur when we try to hide our mistakes, to cover them up rather than to learn from them and allow other people to learn from them."

"I'm convinced that we all harvest the fruits of our labors."

"Use PMA: Positive Mental Attitude."

"What a wonderful thing is to be able to contribute to the restoration of someone's health. It's not only a feeling that I'm worth something, but that I have something to contribute."

"Anyone with a normal brain has the capacity to do almost anything, but when one has special gifts or talents (and everyone has) and takes advantage of and develops these talents – that person is likely to excel."