As a physician specializing in nutrition, my priority is to the health of the public.

We should all be eating fruits and vegetables as if our lives depend on it - because they do.

The most ethical diet just so happens to be the most environmentally sound diet and just so happens to be the healthiest.

If [you are] over the age of 10, the question isn't whether or not to eat healthy to prevent heart disease, it's whether or not you want to reverse the heart disease you already have.

Be a shining role model of the best qualities humane eating embodies: caring, compassion, and empathy.

I ask the internist why there aren't more Ornish-like studies. 'There aren't any financial interests involved.'

You know you're grown up when summer is just a season.

The typical Western diet is the number-one cause of premature death and the number-one cause of disability. In other words, a long and healthy life is largely a matter of choice.

Ounce for ounce, herbs and spices have more antioxidants than any other food group.

Popeye was right about spinach: dark green, leafy vegetables are the healthiest food on the planet. As whole foods go, they offer the most nutrition per calorie.

A plant-based diet is like a one-stop shop against chronic diseases.

And I'll tell her that I don't want my life to be samples and scraps. A taste of everything but a meal of nothing.

Believing in or trusting fate is akin to gambling.

Every decision I make is a choice between a grievance and a miracle.

Art is nowhere near as dangerous as it should be.

I think like, 'And we have some problems here on the earth we worry about? Compared to likenothing. Just be happy. Don't worry be happy right now

War is hell and all that, but it has a good deal to recommend it. It wipes out all the small nuisances of peace time.

Words have always been political, and that means that, in many people's minds, dictionaries are political. Because that's what dictionaries do: they do words.

If you go with the principle, you should go with the principle. If I really saw the subject very differently than ten years ago, I would have done a different movie.

Canada has one of the highest rates of insanity in any civilized country and one reason might be that life in many places is so desperately dull.

I was a nut for Dostoevsky. You can tell a lot from what people read between those ages. My brother was a Steinbeck freak and now he lives in a little village in New Hampshire and he's a baker.