"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."

"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."

"God has opened many doors of opportunity throughout my lifetime, but I believe the greatest of those doors was allowing me to be born in the United States of America."

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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?"

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

"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."

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

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

"Faith, by definition, is a risk."

"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."

"I'm probably never going to be politically correct because I'm not a politician. I don't want to be a politician. Because politicians do what is politically expedient — I want to do what's right."

"Of course black lives matter. But instead of people pointing fingers at each other and just creating strife, what we need to be talking about is: How do we solve problems in the black community? ... Whether I get the votes or not, I want people to start listening to what I am saying and understanding that ... there is a way to go that will lead to upward mobility as opposed to dependency."

"When we have done our best, we also have to learn that we still need to rely on God. Our best – no matter how good – is incomplete if we leave God out of the picture."

"When I don't have an answer, I pray. God is the only alternative source of help."

"Absolutely. Because a lot of people who go into prison go into prison straight -- and when they come out, they're gay. So, did something happen while they were in there? Ask yourself that question."

"I find the big bang, really quite fascinating. I mean, here you have all these highfalutin scientists and they’re saying it was this gigantic explosion and everything came into perfect order."

"Thanks, God, for honoring our best by giving us a miracle."

"Not everyone has to be a high-powered neurosurgeon to add significantly to the equation that brings about success here."

"I want people to understand that we, the American people, are not each other's enemies. The real enemies are those people who are trying to divide us into every little possible group."

"Occasionally I talk with people who see doctors as people who do nothing but give of themselves and never receive from anyone else – especially not from their patients. That is totally false. The longer I remain in my profession, the more I realize how much I receive from those who come to me for help."

"The reason that [political correctness] is very troubling to me is that it’s the very same thing that happened to the Roman Empire. They were extremely powerful. There was no way anybody could overcome them. But these philosophers, with the long flowing white robes and the long white beards, they could wax eloquently on every subject, but nothing was right and nothing was wrong. They soon completely lost sight of who they were."

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

"Only God knows the beginning and the end."

"I personally believe that this theory that Darwin came up with was something that was encouraged by the adversary, and it has become what is scientifically, politically correct."