I slow down when hiking. The rhythm of nature is more leisurely. The sun comes up, it moves across the sky, and you begin to synchronize to that rhythm.

People need to eat whole food plant foods, primarily... whole grains, fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds. That diet supports our lives. We ought to live to be 90 or 100 without getting any diseases.

We do take seriously our responsibility, and growing ability, to educate people about healthy eating and giving them greater access to nourishing and affordable fresh food.

A healthy diet is a solution to many of our health-care problems. It's the most important solution.

Whole Foods has a good health care plan.

I always like to say that our brand or our philosophy has always been kind of this marriage between the 'food as indulgence, ' and it's also been about 'food as health, ' that food is vitality.

The world is getting more connected through technology and travel. Cuisines are evolving. Some people are scared of globalization, but I think people will always take pride in cultural heritage.

In general, when you travel, you get into a different reality and are able to more accurately reflect on your ordinary life. Hiking does that for me.

I think for any small business that's bootstrapped, the overwhelming challenge initially is getting to positive cash flow.

One of the sad things about retiring is that you just become increasingly irrelevant. The world flows around you, and you don't seem to be impacting it any longer.

There is nothing wrong with making money, but that's not particularly inspiring.

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

A director who gets $150,000 per year from a company and needs the money is not independent.

I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.

I do get a lot of mail. I get a lot of foreign mail because my mail gets mixed with Emilio Estevez.

The mere wit is only a human bauble. He is to life what bells are to horses-not expected to draw the load, but only to jingle while the horses draw.

We may not doubt that society in heaven consists mainly of undesirable persons.

Drawing is feeling. Color is an act of reason.

Most recently my battle has been against AIDS and the discrimination surrounding it.

Don't wait to buy land, Buy land and wait. Find out where the people are going and buy the land before they get there.