We don't get fat because we overeat; we overeat because we're getting fat.

The laboratory evidence that carbohydrate-rich diets can cause the body to reain water and so raise blood pressure, just as salt consumption is supposed to do, dates back well over a century

The simple answer as to why we get fat is that carbohydrates make us so; protein and fat do not

The point to keep in mind is that you don't lose fat because you cut calories; you lose fat because you cut out the foods that make you fat-the carbohydrates.

[T]he salient question is whether the increasing awareness of [heart] disease beginning in the 1920s coincided with the budding of an epidemic or simply better technology for diagnosis.

People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar.

How do you put everyone in the pool, so you have the right to dry yourself in the sun?

Danger is the spice of life and you’ve got to take a risk now and then…that’s what makes life worthwhile.

My mother said I was a little odd as a kid. I was alone a lot, but I didn't feel alone.

To love is to risk not being loved in return.

All genuine learning is active, not passive. It involves the use of the mind, not just the memory. It is a process of discovery, in which the student is the main agent, not the teacher.

At the time I wrote Xone I had never been on the Internet.

The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

If I get to be a legend, I've achieved my goal.