Conscious breath control is a useful tool for achieving a relaxed, clear state of mind.

Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.

Health is wholeness and balance, an inner resilience that allows you to meet the demands of living without being overwhelmed.

Fitting a walk into a busy life can be challenging, so I suggest walking rather driving to work or to run errands as often as you can - in other words, think of walking as alternative transportation.

Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy.

By keeping my hand in that, it's the way I keep learning. The main way you learn in medicine is by practicing and working with patients.

I think integrative medicine, something I've pioneered, is the way of the future. Its great promise is that it can reduce healthcare costs by shifting the whole focus of healthcare away from disease management to health promotion and prevention. They can do that two ways: first, by focusing attention on lifestyle medicine, which is very deficient. And second, by bringing into the mainstream treatments that are lower cost because they are not dependent on expensive technology.