I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a doctor. The doctors I knew as a very young child must have helped to plant the desire in me, when I was as young as five or six. One homeopathic physician, Dr. Justice Gage Wright, was a great model.

I'd like to say let your kids go out and play. Then I'd say you're not going to do that are you? Make your kids go out and play.

The right of smokers to smoke ends where their behavior affects the health and well-being of others.

Make your kids go out and play. Kids ought to grow up the way you and I grew up and we grew up fifty years apart or maybe more. But we did the same things. Now who's out playing in the afternoon? Nobody.

Drugs don't work in patients who don't take them.

By the year 2025, 500 million people will die of smoking. Now, that's a Vietnam War every day for 27 years. That's the Titanic sinking every 27 minutes for 27 years.

In thirty-five years of medicine I have never seen one case where abortion was necessary to save a mother's life.