You get tons of phytonutrients and antioxidants from plant-based foods, very little saturated fat, and you avoid cholesterol entirely!

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.

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!

Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.

This senate was a place where good Representatives went when they died. Thomas Reed

Health is a function of three things. 1. Luck 2. Genetics and 3. Choices in your lifestyle.

Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.

No man is hurt but by himself.

Not everybody has things that become classics.

I enjoy meeting someone and then really getting to know them and then falling in love.

Provided one has the correct level of vitamin, mineral and nutritional input, the body can overcome disease.

And they would all smile at the beauty of destruction.

The wrong question to ask of a myth is whether it is true or false. The right question is whether it is living or dead, whether it still speaks to our condition.