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" Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else. "

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" I do practice what I preach when it comes to nutrition. "

" I saw many people who had advanced heart disease and I was so frustrated because I knew if they just knew how to do the right thing, simple lifestyle and diet steps, that the entire trajectory of their life and health would have been different. "

" Biology always beats will power. "

" Most allopathic doctors think practitioners of alternative medicine are all quacks. They're not. Often they're sharp people who think differently about disease. "

" We don't walk. We overeat because we've made it easy to overeat. We have fast-food joints on every corner. By the way, the 'we' is all of us. It's not the government. It's all of us doing this together. "

" I was lucky enough to marry a wonderful chef. "

" We are spending most of our time in American health care fixing the mistakes that either we in the profession are causing or our patients are, without recognizing it, causing to themselves. "

" I like shows that have some level of intelligence to them. When it's not as predictable, when you don't know what's coming at you. "

" In Turkey, you're not allowed to be left alone in the hospital. The nurse teaches the family how to do things, and somebody is always there with the patient. "

" What we have now is doctors who are actually better technically at what they're doing in their specialty than 30 or 40 years ago, but we lost the relationship, when the doctor would look people in the eye and say, 'I care about you. We can do this together.' "

" If you don't know your blood pressure, it's like not knowing the value of your company. "

" You learn how to take care of people from the women in your life. "

" 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. "

" Most food you drop is still perfectly edible. If it was in your eyesight the whole time, you can pick it up and eat it. "

" Your waist size should not be more than half your height. "

" As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there. "

" Medicine grounds me, it centers me, that's why I continue to do it. "

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

" At the end of the day, sleep is a barometer of your emotional health. And so if you're not in the right place where you need to be, then you're going to have voices keeping you up at night because you have to work through those issues. "

" I think I'm a better doctor than I am a husband. I give myself a good grade as a doctor, then the next best grade as a father, and the worst grade as a husband. "

" Unfortunately, several companies are attempting to deceive consumers through the unauthorized use of my image or my name, and my attorneys are pursuing those making these false claims. "

" Medications almost always do it better if they're used in conjunction with other supports. "

" My mother was all about unconditional love, and I don't think we give that to our patients a lot. At the end of the day, what they really need you to do is to look at them in the eye and say, 'I'm here for you. I'm going to make sure this works out.' "

" I feel differently immediately when I start to put weight on. I don't like that sluggish, blunted disposition that I have when that happens. "

" I meditate and I'm passionate about it. "

" I get up at the same time every morning. "

" I get up in the morning and do a seven-minute yoga workout. I know the most likely time I'm going to do something is when I first get up, and I make it short because, like you, I don't really want to do that first thing in the morning. "

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

" The biggest mistake people make is to try to lose too much weight too fast. "