Mehmet Oz

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

“I was lucky enough to marry a wonderful chef.”

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

“Most allopathic doctors think practitioners of alternative medicine are all quacks. They're not. Often they're sharp people who think differently about disease.”

“The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.”

“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.”

“Food - I love nuts. I eat them all the time, they're easy to carry around, and I am never hungry all day long.”

“Medicine grounds me, it centers me, that's why I continue to do it.”

“I do practice what I preach when it comes to nutrition.”

“I feel differently immediately when I start to put weight on. I don't like that sluggish, blunted disposition that I have when that happens.”

“You don't have a family doctor anymore like you did when you were a kid, who treated you throughout your life.”

“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.'”

“Unfortunately, several companies are attempting to deceive consumers through the unauthorized use of my image or my name, and my attorneys are pursuing those making these false claims.”

“Biology always beats will power.”

“You need to be proactive, carve out time in your schedule, and take responsibility for being the healthiest person you can be - no one else is going to do it for you.”

“I think that we're beginning to globalize medicine now. You have to take Eastern approaches and bring them to the West, and share West with the East.”

“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.”

“Medicine has always been my calling.”

“The rule I use is, If it doesn't come out of the ground looking the way it looks when you eat it, be careful.”

“I saw many people who had advanced heart disease and I was so frustrated because I knew if they just knew how to do the right thing, simple lifestyle and diet steps, that the entire trajectory of their life and health would have been different.”