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.

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.

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.

Of all the things you wear your expression is the most important.

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.

Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.

A spoon cannot taste of the food it carries. Likewise, a foolish man cannot understand the wise man´s wisdom even if he associates with a sage.

You just have to press the right keys and the right pedals at the right time and the music plays itself.

Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

It's better to burn brightly for half as long than to be a dim lingering light.

Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations.

One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays.