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

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.

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.

We all thought of chicken as lean, protein-rich food that's good for weight watching, but the truth is chicken might actually be making us fatter!

My greatest wish

The saddest thing that can happen to a person is to find out their memories are lies.

As all our wickedness consists in turning away from our Creator, so all our goodness consists in uniting ourselves with Him.

I can't give parties. It's so hard. When I want to call somebody up for dinner they think I'm using them or something. I just can't stand it.

One of the things we know is that you cannot motivate other people, but you can remove the obstacles that stop them from motivating themselves. All motivation is self-motivation.

As you walk the road of life, be careful of your friends. They can make you or break you.

We have to render Islamist extremism as unattractive as communism has become today.

Don't judge it. Just write it. Don't judge it. It's not for you to judge it.

To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have.

Heaven would that she these gifts should have, and I to live and die her slave.