It is a distinguishing feature of natural therapies that they are straightforward and reliable enough to safely do on your own, at home.

Good health makes a lot of sense, but it does not make a lot of dollars.

Use vitamins in place of drugs. This takes some moxie to do, for we have been taught to be consumers of medicine. We have been taught that anything cheap and safe cannot possibly be effective.

Doctors frequently get it wrong. One out of five patients today is in the hospital because incorrect treatment by a physician put him or her there.

It's unreasonable to expect medical doctors and pharmaceutical companies to tell you how to avoid their services by trying the alternatives.

We need total health more than medically approved health. Our wellness should not be limited to our doctor's experience, but enhanced by our own experience.

If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself. This especially includes your health care.

Change your life. If you want to get better, that is what you have to do.

If you want to be productive, follow leads and dig. Whether it is for oil, gold or information, it requires action - your action. Question authority. Do it yourself.

Self-care means accepting some risk, and accepting much responsibility. It is not for all people or all cases.

Much of the fear of doing something wrong vanishes when we are knowledgeable about what we are doing.

I thought maybe I would be everyone's favorite dude-food friend.

I believe that a lot of our striving after the symbols and levers of success is due to a basic insecurity, a need to prove ourselves. That done, grown up at last, we are free to stop pretending.

If something's neither here nor there, where the hell is it?

Movies dealing with social subjects in France become very paternalist. They want to teach lessons. They don't show poorness like a normal situation.

Instead of schools being a pipeline to opportunity, schools are feeding our prisons.

Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.

At 2 per cent growth a year, an economy doubles in size in just thirty years.

Shooting on the street in Brazil - compared to people trying to sneak a picture of something, if you're shooting in the States or Canada - people would literally just try to grab you.

Buy a house in a foreign country and, it seems, that anything which can go wrong usually does.