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

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.

I was alone, without a single cent, in an unknown country. If I'd learned anything from last year's ill-fated adventures, though, it was not to get overwhelmed by minor inconveniences.

I want everyone to put their views forward, every union branch, every party branch, so we develop organically the strengths we all have, the imagination we all have.

Who now travels that dark path from whose bourne they say no one returns. [Lat., Qui nunc it per iter tenebricosum Illue unde negant redire quemquam.]

I'm friends with everybody. I love everybody. I trust everybody because they don't give me a reason not to.

The thinking of the world leads us to think shallowly and act too quickly.

I had hoped to let the one-half cent sales tax sunset this year, but we do not believe revenues will grow as fast as we hoped for the rest of the year.

The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.

I don't do commissions and I like the freedom to create what my heart or mind tells me to.

You build something but you cant live in the house because you sit around guarding it.

Where true Love burns Desire is Love's pure flame; It is the reflex of our earthly frame, That takes its meaning from the nobler part, And but translates the language of the heart.