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.

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.

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.

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.

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

It’s frustration which makes creativity possible.

You can't be born again, but you can change.

An ideal is merely the projection, on an enormously enlarged scale, of some aspect of personality.

I'm telling you lady I'm only human, not looking for impossibility. Just a genuine woman with sincerity.

My father's parents were from Sardinia and my mother's from Barcelona.

It's nice to know that people appreciate and respect you.

Golden bridge, silver bridge or diamond bridge; it doesn't matter! As long as the bridge takes you across the other side, it is a good bridge!

After all - life is not a dress rehearsal!

I know that some believe that voluntary prayer in schools should be restricted to a moment of silence. We already have the right to remain silent - we can take our Fifth Amendment.

Becoming fully rational is not enough anymore; evidently it can lead to distortions of all the great human possibilities.