The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.

It's like, imagine the ripples on top of an ocean. And I'm in a rowboat, reactively dealing with the waves and water coming into my boat. What I need to do is dive into the deeper solace, the calmness beneath the surface.

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

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.

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.

Not enough families eat together. We eat in front of the TV while we're absorbed in a program.

I've always felt that, when I looked at my tombstone, it shouldn't say, 'Mehmet Oz banged out 10,000 open-heart operations.' I've probably done 5,000. Am I any better at it than 10,000? He shook his head. It's just a different number on the tombstone.