Doctors are especially skilled at a few things. Prescribing medications? Absolutely. Performing surgery? For sure. Nutrition and weight loss? No, definitely not.

When we lift weights regularly, we provide a mechanical loading stimulus to the muscle fibers of the high-threshold motor units every week. When we stop lifting weights, these muscle fibers stop receiving the regular stimulus that they need, and they begin to atrophy.

As an introvert, it’s my right to live my life without being limited by some dictionary definition that says I’m a shy, reticent person all the time. I can be confident, outgoing, and aggressive if I want. Admitting that I’m an introvert has given me the freedom to exhibit introverted behavior

Big mouthfuls often choke.

It doesn't matter what one says; it matters what one does.

Can you not see that women could do and would do a hundred times more for the slave, if she were not fettered?

I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.

The essence of global health equity is the idea that something so precious as health might be viewed as a right.

As many know, brain injury comes in many forms. The two most prevalent brain injuries - stroke and trauma - affect more than 2.2 million Americans, and these numbers are expected to grow.

I know the signs of scaredness.

I married an excellent parent, but I'm not sure that I've made a great parent.

Being sad with the right people is better than being happy with the wrong ones.

Lacking the direct test of success or failure, the voter tends to turn, not to those politicians whose measures have the best chance of success, but to those with the ability to 'sell' their propaganda. Without grasping logical chains of deduction, the average voter will never be able to discover the error that the ruler makes.

I get offered a lot of parts where I want to say, 'Why don't you just hire a model? Don't hire an actor.' I'm trying to convince people I'm a real actor, not some mannequin.

Such is the nature of comic strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste. Typically, the end result is lazy, rich cartoonists.

Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.

Bullying happens because weak people need to prop up their ego by beating up or humiliating others.

When you judge other people without wanting to know the true story behind their actions, is usually when there is something inside of you that is so broken that if you found out what you believed about them was a lie, you wouldn't want to accept it or make amends.

McCarthy's prose in 'Blood Meridian' comes blazing from the Book of Revelation.

The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.

A rose must remain with the sun and the rain or its lovely promise won't come true.

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

I have X'd myself from your world.

It is the right of war for conquerors to treat those whom they have conquered according to their pleasure.

Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when it's good, it's not good enough.

I went back to film work after Dobie. I went back to film work after Dobie.