“There is a pride in speaking this language.”

My view of addiction, whether it’s drugs, food, alcohol or any list of other things, is the same reason I asked my mother why I wasn’t a drug addict or alcoholic, which is because when you’re not loved.

To paraphrase something the anthropologist Ashley Montagu once said, the way I change my life is to act as if I’m the person I want to be. This is, to me, the simplest, wisest advice you can give anyone.

I know patients who bring a dozen roses to the doctor’s office. And, boy, the next visit, nobody forgets that. You come in and hey – ‘Here’s the lady who brought the roses’ vs. ‘Here’s the lung cancer.’

I believe consciousness is non-local and a big part of what we experience with near death and past lives.

Sometimes our behavior with each other is no different from the cry of an unattended baby.

I believe that we are here to contribute love to the planet – each of us in our own way

At the end of the day, she noticed that everybody around her was happy, too- so she didn’t quit after all. She decided to come to work happy instead. Two years later, she’s still on the job, radiating happiness and love.

Medicine is a very tough thing. I mean, everyone is going to die. Sooner or later. That’s a tough thing to face.

The #1 problem most patients face is the inability to love themselves

Inspiration is the greatest gift because it opens your life to many new possibilities.

It is astounding how much the immune system is strengthened by reducing daily mental stress levels with either visualization or meditation.

Studies of volunteers have shown there is a benefit to performing acts of love for other people.

Doctors are busy playing God when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides, the job is taken.

Thoughts are chemical. They can either kill us or cure us.

If you love people, you’ll enjoy your life. If you don’t, you won’t love anything you do.

If a person can turn from predicting illness to anticipating recovery, the foundation for cure is laid.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

What I feel for you is at once the expression of language and the absence of it.

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.

Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.

The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language.

I have three tools at my disposal – my whistle, my body language and my talk.

When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it’s funny in any language.