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

"What we have now is doctors who are actually better technically at what they're doing in their specialty than 30 or 40 years ago, but we lost the relationship, when the doctor would look people in the eye and say, 'I care about you. We can do this together.'"

"At the end of the day, sleep is a barometer of your emotional health. And so if you're not in the right place where you need to be, then you're going to have voices keeping you up at night because you have to work through those issues."

"There are a lot of food Nazis in the U.S., but I believe if you can show people what's really important, they'll judge the rest for themselves."

"The best thing you can do for someone is make them a beautiful plate of food. How else can you invade someone's body without actually touching them?"

"The biggest public health challenge is rebuilding health systems. In other words, if you look at cholera or maternal mortality or tuberculosis in Haiti, they're major problems in Haiti, but the biggest problem is rebuilding systems."

"Politics gets me out of bed in the morning It's what really interests me. I'm a competitor, but I also feel like I'm contributing, whether it's working on health-care policy in the White House or out here in Chicago."

"Maybe the body learns from dreams. Maybe the muscles, the neutrons, revitalize."