I always say my God will take care of me. If it's my time I'll go, and if it's not I won't. I feel that He really has a lot of important things for me to do. And He's going to make sure that I'm here to do them.

As a Christian, as an individual, as a doctor, I am absolutely opposed to the death penalty.

I feel that we can't educate children who are not healthy, and we can't keep them healthy if they're not educated. There has to be a marriage between health and education. You can't learn if your mind is full of unhealthy images from daily life and confusion about right and wrong.

You can't educate a child who isn't healthy, and you can't keep a child healthy who isn't educated.

I think we should have a very, very heavy tax on handguns and on bullets.

We can begin to address the issue of guns by teaching our young people how to deal with situations in nonviolent ways. Someone said to me the other day, "What our adolescents need is not so much health care, but healthy caring," and I agree. Parents and churches need to provide that. Curricula in our schools [need to] provide that.

[On masturbation:] I think that it is part of human sexuality, and perhaps it should be taught.