My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.

In my own personal life God plays a great role in the risk because I pray before I go into the operating room for every case and I ask him to give me wisdom to help me to know what to do - and not only for operating but for everything.

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.

To build a great company which is a CEO's job sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.

Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned small speech cantankerous.

In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

I believe we have become paralyzed paralyzed by our desire to be loved. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.

Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious.

The truest greatness lies in being kind the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.