What you want is to rev up your metabolism so that you are burning fat and calories, not preserving fat and calories.

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 do not know the details of tomorrow, but I have a hope for a better tomorrows.

Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.

Don't ask God to cram His plan into your puny little mind, because then God would be limited by your understanding.

At some point in your life, this statement will be true: tomorrow you will lose everything forever.

Sometimes true tolerance requires an extraordinary strength, which we are often too weak to exercise.

To be boosted by an illusion is not to live better than to live in harmony with the truth ... these refusals to part with a decayed illusion are really an infection to the mind.

Travel. You need to know you're a citizen of the world.

Consciousness is the ground of all being; everything is consciousness. Beyond that, definition is impossible because any way we may attempt to define it would limit consciousness.

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky

It really is a shame that the truth is perceived as an extreme position.