I grew up in Texas, eating meat five times a day, and I liked meat. But I began being a vegetarian when I was 19 because I found that I felt better.

Stress is not so much what you do, but how you react to what you do.

When I talk about forgiveness, I mean letting go, not excusing the other person or reconciling with them or condoning the behavior. Just letting go of your own suffering.

Love and intimacy are at the root of what makes us sick and what makes us well...I am not aware of any other factor in medicine-not diet, not smoking, not exercise-that has a greater impact.

The need for love and intimacy is a fundamental human need, as primal as the need for food, water, and air.

Real power is not given to us or even created; real power is realized. It comes from realizing an inner sense of peace, self-worth, and happiness.

Joy of living is sustainable; fear of dying is not.

The healing power of love and relationships has been documented in an increasing number of well-designed scientific studies involving hundreds of thousands of people throughout the world.

An educated patient is empowered; thus, more likely to become healthy.

People don't dislike change, they dislike being changed.

Even more than feeling healthy, most people want to feel free and in control.

Knowledge and courage take turns at greatness.

Wrapped around my son with only the knowledge of the words of the world & a quiet remembrance of watching before this all began.

The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. He's the center of a team - doctors, scientists, coaches, agents and so on.

Lasting motivation proceeds forth from the heart. People can be temporarily motivated by other people and things around them. Permanent, enduring motivation, however, can only come from within.

There's so much to explore! And personally, I don't know. It's such a crapshoot.

The golden age has not passed; it lies in the future.

Once the festival achieved a certain level of notoriety, then people began to come here with agendas that were not the same as ours. We can't do anything about that. We can't control that.

I think I'm too lazy a writer to do something like historical fiction. You have to do so much research. I just write what I know.

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

I've been collaborating a lot, because I like working that way. It's fun and keeps you moving forward.