Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.

To say that obesity is caused by merely consuming too many calories is like saying that the only cause of the American Revolution was the Boston Tea Party.

We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.

As I see it every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.

As I see it every single day you do one in every of two issues: construct well being or produce illness in your self.

If this country [America] is to survive, the best-fed-nation myth had better be recognized for what it is: propaganda designed to produce wealth not health.

Thousands upon thousands of persons have studied disease. Almost no one has studied health.

Nutrition . . . has been kicked around like a puppy that cannot take care of itself. Food faddists and crackpots have kicked it pretty cruelly . . .

The longer I work in nutrition, the more convinced I become that for the healthy person all foods should be delicious.

They feel life is for the taking, and that everyone deserves happiness no matter what the cost. I must remember these tricks if I ever decide to have my soul surgically removed.

Elsie eyed him puzzledly, and then offered, "Would you like to see my plate?

We obtain things when we no longer want them.

I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices - made up of likings and dislikings.

It's dangerous to be people-blind.

You have to be driven by the stories that you want to tell. You can't simply be responding, or there won't be any real heart to those stories anymore.

I'd go down in history for being the most revealing nun ever!

I stopped singing and they gave me an award.

Successful people see adversity as a stepping stone rather than a stumbling block.

Well, I don't have much job security.