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

I've always been called "controversial." I think if I were not controversial I wouldn't be doing my job.

I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America. We have a disease-management system - one that depends on ruinously expensive drugs and surgeries that treat health conditions after they manifest rather than giving our citizens simple diet, lifestyle and therapeutic tools to keep them healthy.

I know of no culture in the world at present or any time in the past that has not been heavily involved with one or more psychoactive substances.

I think instead [of happiness] we should be working for contentment... an inner sense of fulfillment that's relatively independent of external circumstances.

In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created.

The World Health Organization has recognized acupuncture as effective in treating mild to moderate depression.