Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.

The exceptional patient is the person who, despite their diagnosis, takes charge of their health and decides to be responsible to their illness or their condition and not necessarily feel responsible for it. One stance is drenched in blame and the other is full of power.

By becoming mindful of our cultural programming, we can step out of it.

Thoughts are an important part of your inner wisdom and they are very powerful. A thought held long enough and repeated often enough becomes a belief. A belief then becomes your biology.

Learning to love yourself should not become a life-long challenge that most of us never meet.

As a doctor, let me tell you what self-love does: It improves your hearing, your eyesight, lowers your blood pressure, increases pulmonary function, cardiac output, and helps wiring the musculature. So, if we had a rampant epidemic of self-love then our healthcare costs would go down dramatically. So, this isn't just some little frou-frou new age notion, oh love yourself honey. This is hardcore science.

I keep my center by [surrounding] myself with like-minded people who I can call and visit with and simply be with.