A healthy diet is a solution to many of our health-care problems. It's the most important solution.

I slow down when hiking. The rhythm of nature is more leisurely. The sun comes up, it moves across the sky, and you begin to synchronize to that rhythm.

People need to eat whole food plant foods, primarily... whole grains, fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds. That diet supports our lives. We ought to live to be 90 or 100 without getting any diseases.

We do take seriously our responsibility, and growing ability, to educate people about healthy eating and giving them greater access to nourishing and affordable fresh food.

Whole Foods has a good health care plan.

I always like to say that our brand or our philosophy has always been kind of this marriage between the 'food as indulgence, ' and it's also been about 'food as health, ' that food is vitality.

The world is getting more connected through technology and travel. Cuisines are evolving. Some people are scared of globalization, but I think people will always take pride in cultural heritage.

In general, when you travel, you get into a different reality and are able to more accurately reflect on your ordinary life. Hiking does that for me.

I think for any small business that's bootstrapped, the overwhelming challenge initially is getting to positive cash flow.

One of the sad things about retiring is that you just become increasingly irrelevant. The world flows around you, and you don't seem to be impacting it any longer.

There is nothing wrong with making money, but that's not particularly inspiring.

I wore my first pair of Louboutins during this press tour. It was absolutely amazing, they weren't heels, they were little shoes, but they were velvet and they were blue.

Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.

I had my first bowl of gazpacho when I was fifteen in Spain, and the impression it made was a lasting one.

The first priority is to make sure we have capital to continue to have capital available to put into the financial system. That's the first priority.

Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.

We all need to be blind sometimes in order to see.

Oh, yeah. A big part of my job is drinking martinis when I work in advertising.

If humility is always desirable, generous humility is still more so.

My heart has been stolen too - but I've gone and got it back every single time!

Winning that first game was so important; my mother always said that the first game of the second set was the chance to keep it going if you were ahead or change things if you were behind.