Clearly, America's dysfunctional food culture must bear some of the blame for our excess pounds, but it's likely our walking-averse lifestyles contribute as well.

Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food.

If I had to limit my advice on healthier living to just one tip, it would be simply to learn how to breathe correctly.

Happiness is a skill. It requires effort and time.

Many exercise forms - aerobic, yoga, weights, walking and more - have been shown to benefit mood.

Practicing regular, mindful breathing can be calming and energizing and can even help with stress-related health problems ranging from panic attacks to digestive disorders.

It is more important to eat some carbohydrates at breakfast, because the brain needs fuel right away, and carbohydrate is the best source.

If at the first sign of infection, you always jump in with antibiotics, you do not give the immune system a chance to grow stronger.

Please keep in mind the distinction between healing and treatment: treatment originates from outside, whereas healing comes from within.

Healing is making whole, restoring a state of perfection and balance that has been lost.

The World Health Organization has recognized acupuncture as effective in treating mild to moderate depression.

They say: Think twice before you jump. I say: Jump first and then think as much as you want!

we’re all a grab bag of good and eveil, and by and large can’t tell which is which

When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.

South Africa is a country built on possibility. Possibility lies in making a difference and creating value from a situation - without denying that certain issues exist.

An egg boiled very soft is not unwholesome.

Hope ... is not a feeling; it is something you do.

One hopes that each piece contains enough space for several narratives.

Whatever you are doing, take the attitude of wanting it directly or indirectly to benefit others. Take the attitude of wanting it to increase your experience of kinship with your fellow beings.

This was the first place I everfelt strong. Every time I breathe this air I feel it again.

If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be as overpopulated as it is now.