As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there.

If you can laugh your way through life, you can have a good time as you're going through the sometimes troubling time that we have in our lives.

The transfats found in margarine, packaged cookies, crackers and pasta increase fat in your midsection, and can actually redistribute fat from other parts of the body to the belly.

I get up at the same time every morning.

You don't have a family doctor anymore like you did when you were a kid, who treated you throughout your life.

Our ancestors had to eat whenever food was around. And we're actually still hardwired the same way. The big difference is we don't have to hunt for our food. For us, "hunting" comes down to sliding the milk carton out of the way.

It's difficult to love someone you don't respect, which is hard to remember when you're having an argument.