I was weaned on chicken-fried steak and hominy grits with goopy gravy all over. I loved meat and wore fur.

Though I'm vegan and advocate that others eat a plant-based diet, I know that many people aren't quite ready to take that step in whole.

In the middle of it all, pause and look around you. Appreciate what’s beautiful. Take in the love. Nod to what’s good and true. And then move forward one step at a time.

The reason fiber helps us control our weight is that it fills the belly yet yields few calories since fiber is, for the most part, not something that we can digest.

If you want to feel more comfortable and happy, work on making the people around you more comfortable and happy.

Personally, I enjoy a bowl of brown rice for breakfast most of the time.

Vegetarian is the New Prius!

So if you serve a whole chicken to your family like grandma did, you may be serving them 10 times as much fat than the days of yesteryear. That's a whole lotta fat, and big trouble for the waistline.

You get tons of phytonutrients and antioxidants from plant-based foods, very little saturated fat, and you avoid cholesterol entirely!

The goal is progress, not perfection!

Most diets would have you cutting things out from your diet; they are about denial and discipline.

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

Remember some books are meant to be tasted, some books are meant to be chewed and, finally, some books are meant to be swallowed whole.

The more we oblige, the more we self-censor, the more we appease, the bolder the enemy gets.

War is a bloody, killing business. You've got to spill their blood, or they will spill yours. Rip them up the belly. Shoot them in the guts.

If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.

People shouldn’t be ashamed of their bodies...especially women.

I know there are certain gifts that each of us have. The gifts you don't have to worry about so much, because God gave them to us. It's the living, it's the life, it's the now.

Messy love is better than none, I guess. I am no authority on sane living.

Those who would know the world, seek first within your beings' depths; those who would truly know themselves, develop interest in the world.

My style is boho chic. I love that time period - the patterns, the prints, the people, the music, the vibe.