Every person has the right to look and feel like a million bucks.

We're all human beings, but some of us are more sophisticated at covering our flaws. We're just smart enough to lie to ourselves that everything is OK.

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.

Most food you drop is still perfectly edible. If it was in your eyesight the whole time, you can pick it up and eat it.

We don't need sugar to live, and we don't need it as a society.

I was lucky enough to marry a wonderful chef.

There were certain elements of the healing process I could not capture. And even if I was right in the science, I could be wrong in the spirit.