A good way to adjust to a healthier diet is to think of three meals you enjoy that are largely plant-based. Pasta with tomato sauce can be tweaked to whole-grain pasta with added vegetables.

We should all be eating fruits and vegetables as if our lives depend on it - because they do.

The most ethical diet just so happens to be the most environmentally sound diet and just so happens to be the healthiest.

If [you are] over the age of 10, the question isn't whether or not to eat healthy to prevent heart disease, it's whether or not you want to reverse the heart disease you already have.

Be a shining role model of the best qualities humane eating embodies: caring, compassion, and empathy.

I ask the internist why there aren't more Ornish-like studies. 'There aren't any financial interests involved.'

You know you're grown up when summer is just a season.

The typical Western diet is the number-one cause of premature death and the number-one cause of disability. In other words, a long and healthy life is largely a matter of choice.

Ounce for ounce, herbs and spices have more antioxidants than any other food group.

Popeye was right about spinach: dark green, leafy vegetables are the healthiest food on the planet. As whole foods go, they offer the most nutrition per calorie.

A plant-based diet is like a one-stop shop against chronic diseases.

With your own hands you can achieve much

There is nothing that can replace self-development.

The writing, acting and the directing all complement each other and make each other better. It's one of those amazing instances where everything seems to come together.

I never use a computer.

American writers, at least those of us who are fortunate enough to support ourselves in the field, are by and large a lucky lot.

Commuter - one who spends his life In riding to and from his wife; A man who shaves and takes a train And then rides back to shave again.

Thought alone cannot recognize spiritual truths no matter how highly developed thought is. It's impossible.

The cuter the boy, the mushier your brain.

It may be that ministers really think that their prayers do good, and it may be that frogs imagine that their croaking brings spring.

Scold your children, and they will know what is wrong; but correct them with love, and they will know what is right.