How we grow food has enormous effects on the environment - climate change as well as pollution of air, water, and soil.

There's no question that largely vegetarian diets are as healthy as you can get. The evidence is so strong and overwhelming and produced over such a long period of time that it's no longer debatable.

Unbelievable as it may seem, one-third of all vegetables consumed in the United States come from just three sources: french fries, potato chips, and iceberg lettuce.

The real reason for health claims is well established: health claims sell food products.

Eat less, move more, eat lots of fruits and vegetables, go easy on junk foods.

Here we have the great irony of modern nutrition: at a time when hundreds of millions of people do not have enough to eat, hundreds of millions more are eating too much and are overweight or obese.

The key dietary messages are stunningly simple: Eat less, move more, eat more fruits and vegetables, and don't eat too much junk food. It's no more complicated than that.

These days the biggest issue is how many calories you consume. So all of this stuff distracts people from thinking about calories.

They (food companies) are putting $36 billion into directing those choices. And their methods are very effective.

Restaurants that have health-conscious consumers will pay attention to this.

It's a completely reasonable diet -- heavy on fruits and vegetables and fresh, seasonal foods. I'm totally for it. It's common sense in a nice package.

Be happy, but never satisfied.

Some saints cannot do menial work while maintaining a saintly attitude because they feel such service is beneath their dignity.

I don't forgive people, but I don't let them bother me either!

I think preaching equality among unequals is the worst form of discrimination.

Don't drink in the hotel bar, that's where I do my drinking.

I definitely dislike pomposity and artifice. I hope that I'm not that. Once I write a song, it belongs to the world, and the way people perceive it, it's cool.

Most business people today are not going to invest in the uncertainty that exists in America.

My first business deal was with my mother. I invested in chickens. I sold the eggs to my mother.

My doctor is nice; every time I see him, I'm ashamed of what I think of doctors in general.

History paints the human heart.