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.

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.

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

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.

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

To possess a rich life of wholeness that brings happiness into the soul

If we do not restore the Institution of Property we cannot escape restoring the Institution of Slavery

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of God no matter what the conflict.

There are so many different ways to say "I love you" and to talk about love in the songs.

In media, there's a distance and an unrealistic expectation of knowledge about a person that's created.

What seems so necessary today may not even be desirable tomorrow.

It's hard to convince a winner that he's losing.

More than any religious figure that I can think of, Dalai Lama goes out of his way to attend interfaith conferences; religious harmony is one of his urgent priorities in life.

Humankind is never what he is but the self he seeks.

If I were well behaved, I'd die of boredom.