Your choice of diet can influence your long term health prospects more than any other action you might take.

Drugs don't work in patients who don't take them.

Health care is vital to all of us some of the time, but public health is vital to all of us all of the time

Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation

The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.

You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.

A thousand people will stop smoking today. Their funerals will be held sometime in the next three or four days.

In thirty-five years of medicine I have never seen one case where abortion was necessary to save a mother's life.

The best prescription is knowledge.

Cigarette smoking is clearly identified as the chief, preventable cause of death in our society.

All of the western world raises its children uncircumcised and it seems logical that, with the extent of health knowledge in those countries, such a practice must be safe.

Let me be the type man who plants a field of flowers so you can be the type of woman who picks them.

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.

Remember, whenever a Republican leaves one side of the aisle and goes to the other, it raises the intelligence quotient of both parties.

At what point is someone precluded from availing themselves of the justification of self-defense because of their own poor judgment or bad behavior?

Well, I haven't been doing that much work with other people per se. I started doing more of that.

The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.

I always said that I wouldn't use a teleprompter, and if I start to sing real flat, I'll hang it up.

I'm probably so out of it at my age that I don't know what people think.

Sometimes it seems as if I have spent the first half of my life refusing to let white people define me and the second half refusing to let black people define me.

The act of thinking and interpreting is so central to Judaism that it makes more sense that we've become people like Woody Allen - thinkers and talkers and drafters of law.