Surgery has trained me better than anything else to connect with people.

If you want to be healthy and live to one hundred, do qigong.

Your genetics load the gun. Your lifestyle pulls the trigger.

Energy Medicine is the last great frontier in medicine.

The next big frontier in medicine is Energy Medicine.

I think that we're beginning to globalize medicine now. You have to take Eastern approaches and bring them to the West, and share West with the East.

The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.

True health care reform cannot happen in Washington. It has to happen in our kitchens, in our homes, in our communities. All health care is personal.

No matter how old you are, no matter how much you weigh, you can still control the health of your body.

You need to be proactive, carve out time in your schedule, and take responsibility for being the healthiest person you can be - no one else is going to do it for you.

If you change your lifestyle, remember it's not a wind sprint, but it's a marathon you're embarked on, and you'll be able to stay there.

In your anger, zip your lips!

I fear one day I'll meet God, he'll sneeze and I won't know what to say

God sent his beloved creatures to Datça for them to live longer.

Smiling is confusing, she thought. This is why I don´t do it

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.

There will always be ladies who lunch. Always. And apparently they live a long time.

One of the happiest days of my life is when I made five or six hundred pesos from a crop of watermelons I raise all on my own.

I was moved no end by the work of LaVern Baker.

Ben was a very simple straightforward man with a brilliant quick mind.

I won once [an Oscar]. So it can't be that racist.