Food, in the end, in our own tradition, is something holy. It's not about nutrients and calories. It's about sharing. It's about honesty. It's about identity.

Food is as important as energy, as security, as the environment. Everything is linked together.

There is no technical reason why we could not feed a world of nine billion people. Hunger is a matter of buying power, not of shortages.

I needed her to stop. Needed not to hear the pain in her voice--to see the way she was twisting the pocketbook strap. If she kept talking, she might break down and tell me everything.

Know that the most neurotic, most ugly situation is simply testing you. It is testing capacity, beyond his control, your flexibility, your adjustment and your character.

Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about your body.

It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you're in boom times.

Never date a woman you can hear ticking.

Your own mental attitude is your real boss.

To know, to esteem, to love,-and then to part, Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart.

I wished that I were the owner of every southern slave, that I might cast off the shackles from their limbs, and witness the rapture which would excite them in the first dance of their freedom.

A fickle and changeful thing is a woman ever.

A country in which the people are not healthy physically and psychologically, are poorly educated and illiterate, will never rise to the peaks of world civilization.