The trans fat label has been an enormous incentive for food companies to take trans fat out of their products.

There's no question that largely vegetarian diets are as healthy as you can get. The evidence is so strong and overwhelming and produced over such a long period of time that it's no longer debatable.

Unbelievable as it may seem, one-third of all vegetables consumed in the United States come from just three sources: french fries, potato chips, and iceberg lettuce.

The real reason for health claims is well established: health claims sell food products.

Eat less, move more, eat lots of fruits and vegetables, go easy on junk foods.

Here we have the great irony of modern nutrition: at a time when hundreds of millions of people do not have enough to eat, hundreds of millions more are eating too much and are overweight or obese.

The key dietary messages are stunningly simple: Eat less, move more, eat more fruits and vegetables, and don't eat too much junk food. It's no more complicated than that.

These days the biggest issue is how many calories you consume. So all of this stuff distracts people from thinking about calories.

They (food companies) are putting $36 billion into directing those choices. And their methods are very effective.

Restaurants that have health-conscious consumers will pay attention to this.

It's a completely reasonable diet -- heavy on fruits and vegetables and fresh, seasonal foods. I'm totally for it. It's common sense in a nice package.

Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"..."It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine...

A lot of the time, I'm just smart enough to be unhappy.

Coach Landry was a master at maintaining discipline and creating an environment where ordinary people could achieve extra ordinary results.

Yes, you have been away a very long time.' 'Oh, centuries and centuries; so long,' she said, 'that I'm sure I'm dead and buried and this dear old place is heaven.

Yes, I have dreams. I ofttimes dream of Love As radiant and brilliant as a star. As changeless, too, as that fixed light afar Which glorifies vast worlds of space above.

The stars shine as they always do. Same stars. Same sky. Only I am different.

That, however, is - mediocrity, though it be called moderation.

Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.

And you know what the worst part is? I never learned to read!

Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.