I'm not a genius. I just worked really, really hard, and I want our generation, our children and our future generations to realize that they can fulf….

I hear hate. I hear people who clearly don't have a great understanding of the American dream. That the American dream is based on hard work and dedi….

The same skills that I used as a welder, as a migrant farm worker, are similar skills that I'm using as a brain surgeon..

You know how in sports baseball players, they hit home runs. Football players, they throw and they score touchdowns. I get to do something that very ….

To hear the amount of hate that people have in the United States is disheartening. However, I still have hope that we have not reached the pinnacle..

Doesn't matter how menial may be the job that you're doing today. If you have dreams, that will turn into something positive in the future..

I'm not a politician, I'm not an economist. I'm just a simple Brian surgeon and a scientist who's trying to do my best every day..

Developed countries will always welcome the Einsteins of this world - those individuals whose talents are already recognized and deemed to have value….

I'm just a regular guy. I want people to realize that I embody the true American dream. I work hard. I went to school..

If you look at some of the clips of me in the operating room, I sit in the chair, I control the microscope with my mouth, I connect, my hands are alw….

I continue to do my job as a brain surgeon, as a researcher, and I try to make it better and better every day, not only for my patients but for their….

As a researcher at US Berkeley I used to go into the brains of small, little animals and study the way that brains were connected and how little did ….

You have to have passion for everything you do, and you've got to look at the positive side..

The greatest gratification that I get to work with these hands is that when I come out and I go to the waiting room and speak and talk to the familie….