Keep a strict, predictable schedule 365 days a year that has you eating, sleeping, and exercising at about the same times day in and day out.

There's no question that the mind-body connection is real, even if we can't quantify it. Hope is one of the greatest weapons we have to fight disease.

Of all the things a body loves, predictability is one of them.

I'm a big believer in what's called personalized medicine, which refers to customizing your health care to your specific needs based on your physiology, genetics, value system and unique conditions.

Keep the soil healthy and the bad seed won't grow.

We have forgotten that curing cancer starts with preventing cancer in the first place.

I have developed a unique way of looking at the relationship of the human body to health and disease.

Cancer is the ultimate nemesis that hangs in the balance for one in three women and one in two men in their lifetime.

In health care today, we spend most of the dollars - in terms of treating disease - in the last two years of a person's life.

I want doctors to treat toward health and not treat toward disease.

We may never understand illnesses such as cancer. In fact, we may never cure it. But an ounce of prevention is worth more than a million pounds of cure.

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.

It's hard not to stand in awe and enchantment with the beauty in which nature expresses herself.

Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.

The other day I chanced to meet An angry man upon the street — A man of wrath, a man of war, A man who truculently bore Over his shoulder, like a lance, A banner labeled “Tolerance.

Once a person has become detached from his possessions, his customary duties, his moments of solitude, where is he? What is he?

The sustaining of life, in a bodily sense as well as in the sense of psychological health, is inherently subject to risk.

I spent seven years writing The Free World. There are a lot of things I accomplished there that I'm very proud of, but I didn't want to spend another seven years writing a book like that.

I feel a great comfort and relief knowing that there are others who lived and died and thought and fought so long ago; I feel less tyrannized by the present day.

The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.

As a professional broadcaster, I can tell you that over the course of my career, there is an adage: don't ever apologize.