"You can't exercise your way out of a bad diet."

"The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital."

"Lifestyle change and changes in diet work faster, better and more cheaply than any medication and are as effective or more effective than gastric bypass without any side effects or long-term complications."

"The best advice is to avoid foods with health claims on the label, or better yet avoid foods with labels in the first place."

"A good column is one that sells paper. It doesn't matter how beautifully it is written and how much you admire the author... if it doesn't sell any papers, it's not a good column. It's a terrible yardstick to use, but in the newspaper business, that's the whole thing."

"I always respect a woman."

"It is a timeless truth that humility is not weakness in leadership; it is the cornerstone of unassailable respect."

"We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people."