While weight loss is important, what's more important is the quality of food you put in your body - food is information that quickly changes your metabolism and genes.

It's more important to understand the imbalances in your body's basic systems and restore balance, rather than name the disease and match the pill to the ill.

The most powerful medicine is at the end of your fork, not at the bottom of your pill bottle. Food is more powerful than anything in your medicine cabinet!

The key to creating health is figuring out the cause of the problem and then providing the right conditions for the body and soul to thrive. It isn't taking another medication.

There's no such thing as junk food. There's junk and there's food.

The fork is your most powerful tool to change your health and the planet; food is the most powerful medicine to heal chronic illness.

The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital.

Your social networks may matter more than your genetic networks. But if your friends have healthy habits you are more likely to as well. So get healthy friends.

In the 21st century our tastes buds, our brain chemistry, our biochemistry, our hormones and our kitchens have been hijacked by the food industry.

Seems you can't outsmart Mother Nature.

I have experienced some amazing food! Yet when I think about the most luxurious and exquisite meals I have had, visions of simple food made from a few natural ingredients are what most excite me.

A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone on a raft.

Autumn is really the best of the seasons

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

As I get older, my appreciation for wine has just increased. I fell in love with wine through my travels, but knowing what the wine country is all about definitely makes it my own.

I'm very blessed and I don't take anything for granted.

Keeping your artistic self as creative as possible is a balancing act.

Something magic happens when I get to a club or get on stage.

But perhaps this is what goes wrong with long marriages--you state your opinions, your likes and dislikes, at the beginning and then forget to mention when they change" (135).

I was a very outgoing, gregarious, full-of-energy kid.