The benefits of a healthier diet are far-reaching because they also equate to fewer animals being bred into inhumane factory farm conditions and fewer greenhouse gas emissions.

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.

Jesus consistently put people before rules.

Distance matters only when you fail to cover it through your mind

The end is always the same. That's why what we do does matter. Good or bad, we die. If we bring some light and prosperity into the world, isn't that better than there being less light?

Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.

Jamie, you know, you could go clear around the world and still come home wondering if the tuna fish sandwiches at Chock Full O'Nuts still cost thirty-five cents.

The art of science is as important as so-called technical science. You need both. It's this combination that must be recognized and acknowledged and valued.

You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off.

There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes.

Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion.

White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.