The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.

If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people,' you'd better live real close to a real good hospital.

Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw materials for building body fat.

In my own life, I decided to leave meat off my plate in medical school, but was a bit slow to realise that dairy products and eggs are not health foods either.

Meat consumption is just as dangerous to public health as tobacco use... It's time we looked into holding the meat producers and fast-food outlets legally accountable.

The thinnest people on the planet are those who eat the most carbohydrates.

While it's certainly true that many people think that dairy doesn't have a cost to the animal, it's because they never went to a dairy farm.

To give a child animal products is a form of child abuse.

Another advantage of avoiding sodas is that you will avoid the caffeine that is in many of them. Caffeine is a weak diuretic that causes calcium loss via the kidneys.

I think we have to do everything that's useful. We're doctors. Our job is to tell the truth. And it doesn't have to be embellished in any way.

It doesn't do a lot of good for your health to move from red meat to white meat, but it gets you further down the road towards making more substantial changes later.

We cannot change anything in our past

Sometimes you just have to take the pie in the face.

...you cannot control the depth of a wound another inflicts upon you.

Thoughts are circular, they don't take you anywhere. They don't have feet-they can't gain any ground. They can trap you if you don't eventually stand up and make a move.

Pray that the summer mornings are many when with such pleasure, with such joy you will enter ports seen for the first time

No person was ever honoured for what he received. Honour has been the reward for what he gave.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

People are going to have to make themselves predictable, or the machines will get angry and kill them.

I really like boats. If you want to go somewhere, you just take your house with you.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.