"Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food."

"By keeping my hand in that, it's the way I keep learning. The main way you learn in medicine is by practicing and working with patients."

"Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance."

"Human beings have survived for millennia because most of us make good decisions about our health most of the time."

"What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended."

"Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work."

"I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead."

"God enters by a private door into every individual."