...you need not do and be everything.

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.

Fine minds are seldom fine souls.

To be a success, intensely focus on success oriented action not on roadblocks or obstacles.

Forgiveness means saying that you're not going to let what happened to you define you any longer.

We have arguments [with my father] and we had a lot of arguments in the years when I was at Michigan.

The best form of endurance exercise is the performance of the event.

I don't intentionally spoil my grandkids. It's just that correcting them often takes more energy than I have left.

I love anything to do with ventriloquism and magic.

There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.

In time of revolution, with perseverance and courage, a soldier should think nothing impossible.