Let's all be more humble about the evidence behind medical advice but also respect the challenges to providing accessible lifestyle guidance.

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.

It is one thing to know what should be done, it is another to do it.

Leadership demands that we make tough choices.

Sometimes an hour of Fate's serenest weather Strikes through our changeful sky its coming beams; Somewhere above us, in elusive ether, Waits the fulfilment of our dearest dreams.

All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things : That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than a slave

I smoke pot when I work. I take a couple of tokes before I start. It just loosens you up.

No dog is too much for me to handle. I rehabilitate dogs, I train people. I am the dog whisperer.

Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.

I grew up in suburban New York City and London, England, where my dad was working.

Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.

The notion that the great artist requires a great patron has been around since the Pharaohs. That the born patron also needs an artist to patronize is a less-studied phenomenon.