"It is the mark of a superior person that, left to themselves they are able endlessly to amuse, interest and entertain themselves out of their personal stock of meditations, ideas, criticisms, memories, philosophy, humor and what not."

"I try to find 15 minutes a day to just be alone without any distractions just for headspace to meditate and get my Zen on. I think that helps me get through the hecticness of the day on tour with the interviews, the sound check, the meet and greets, the show and the post-show meet and greets."

"There's a new medical crisis. Doctors are reporting that many men are having allergic reactions to latex condoms. They say they cause severe swelling. So what's the problem?"

"Prevention is better than cure."

"Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day"

"I had a lumpectomy. It wasn't that bad. Six and a half weeks of radiation."

"I always sort of thought, 'I'm probably going to get breast cancer. There's a really good chance.'"

"My mother has battled breast cancer three times."

"I didn't have chemo."

"Smoking. . . is a shocking thing, blowing smoke out of our mouths into other people's mouths, eyes and noses, and having the same thing done to us."

"A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover."

"No parent would fail to call the doctor if their child developed a fever."

"A child's mental health is just as important as their physical health."

"You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement."

"Don't find fault, find a remedy."

"Surgery for early stage non-small cell lung cancer is standard treatment and is likely curative. Yet, fewer blacks than whites undergo surgery for the disease, leading to a higher mortality rate among blacks with lung cancer,"

"Heavy lifting doesn't need to be heavy spending if we do the job right."

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.

I like to meditate. But I get rid of my stress at the gym.

“Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.”

“Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.” 

My doctor told me to watch my drinking. Now I drink in front of a mirror.

I say 'no' to drugs. Whenever someone asks me for some of my drugs I say, 'no.

After 50 years of smoking unfiltered cigarettes, my father died, too young, of a massive heart attack. He was 69. It's almost certain that all those years of nicotine inhalation were a major contributor to his clogged arteries.