As a physician, I am embarrassed by my profession's lack of interest in healthier lifestyles. We need to change the way we approach chronic disease.

Genetics loads the gun, lifestyle pulls the trigger.

Having the USDA design your food pyramid is like having Al Capone do your taxes.

Heart disease is a foodborne illness.

I'll remind you one more time, I've treated a lot of vegans for heart disease.

Collectively the media; the meat, oil, and dairy industries; most prominent chefs and cookbook authors; and our own government are not presenting accurate advice about the healthiest way to eat.

Ah, sir, that's just mean. She's not a Victoria's Secret model. but she's pretty in her way.

The power of now can only be realized now. It requires no time and effort. Effort means you're trying hard to get somewhere, and so you are not present, welcoming this moment as it is.

And he made love to her, offering his body in both tenderness and anger, unsure which was the best way to pass her bits of his soul so that she could patch her own with it

Make no mistake, most women are well aware that they've never had it so good; when they enter a spa or salon, it is purely a hair/nails thing, a prelude to an evening of guilt-free fun.

He who loves others is always loved by them, and he who respects others is always respected by them.

It behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

It makes me feel like working non-stop: at least, on sets, the level of security gives me a bit of privacy. It's a relief.

The line of least resistance is to most people the lifeline.

Ben McAdoo has a "work hard" mentality.

Even though poetry was written for the 'minds ear' as well as the physical ear, the minds ear can be trained only by the other ... which comes back to reading poetry aloud.