Meaning is malleable: take it out, you get nihilism and despair. Put it in, you get sacredness and something most special.

I am as non-accepting of medical quackery and unscientific approaches as anybody else. I've grown up as a card-carrying scientist, and I know the power of science to answer questions, and for many questions I don't know of anything better than scientific approaches to answer them.

People who are lonely and depressed are three to 10 times more likely to get sick and die prematurely than those who have a strong sense of love and community. I don’t know any other single factor that affects our health - for better and for worse - to such a strong degree.

Stress is not so much what you do, but how you react to what you do.

One of the reasons my father ... became a dentist was so he could always be home for dinner and spend weekends with his family. At one point he had thought about being a musician, but he said, I'm not going to do that because I'd be on the road all the time and I wouldn't be with my family.

Meaning is malleable: take it out, you get nihilism and despair. Put it in, you get sacredness and something most special.

An educated patient is empowered; thus, more likely to become healthy.