It's difficult to love someone you don't respect, which is hard to remember when you're having an argument.

If you want to be healthy and live to one hundred, do qigong.

Your genetics load the gun. Your lifestyle pulls the trigger.

Energy Medicine is the last great frontier in medicine.

The next big frontier in medicine is Energy Medicine.

I think that we're beginning to globalize medicine now. You have to take Eastern approaches and bring them to the West, and share West with the East.

The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.

True health care reform cannot happen in Washington. It has to happen in our kitchens, in our homes, in our communities. All health care is personal.

No matter how old you are, no matter how much you weigh, you can still control the health of your body.

You need to be proactive, carve out time in your schedule, and take responsibility for being the healthiest person you can be - no one else is going to do it for you.

If you change your lifestyle, remember it's not a wind sprint, but it's a marathon you're embarked on, and you'll be able to stay there.

Books have a life. They breathe. When you write a book, it grows and changes. You learn from your characters after you create them. They come from you and you become them.

the Divine Nature wounds and perhaps destroys us merely by being what it is.

My book has a pre - civil rights setting with a post - civil rights sensibility. I believe less and less that there is something called "The Black Experience," though undoubtedly there was one once.

The NBA is not for everybody. And looking from the outside in like I did last year, it seems so easy from just watching, but on the court it is a whole different level.

Much of our adult morality, in books and out of them, has a stuffiness unworthy of childhood. Our grown-up conclusions often rest on perilously soft bottom.

Some girls get swept up in the lifestyle-clubbing and partying with celebrities. You can't live your life like that, though. It's fake.

The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through.

Those who regarded the revolution, during Imam Khomeini's time, as a deviation, are now [wielding] the tools of terror and oppression

America, for me, is the country where, if you have something great to offer, you'll be valued highly.

We need to send a clear message to gang members that violent crime will not be tolerated.