What we eat has changed more in the last 40 years than in the previous 40,000. The survival of the current food system depends upon widespread ignorance of how it really operates.

The Golden Arches are now more widely recognized than the Christian cross.

Most fast food is fried. Fried food tastes great, and people dont seem to care about the fat aspect.

Fast food is popular because it's convenient, it's cheap, and it tastes good. But the real cost of eating fast food never appears on the menu.

Yes, a cheeseburger and fries is probably my favourite meal. But I don't eat ground beef anymore.

There's a real strong link today between soda consumption and obesity among children.

Fast food is inexpensive, convenient, and it tastes good. I'm all in favor of that. My problem is how heavily processed it is - how full of salt, fat, and sugar it is.

The market is a tool, and a useful one. But the worship of this tool is a hollow faith. Far more important than any tool is what you make with it.

The United States now has more prison inmates than full-time farmers.

Twenty years ago, teenage boys in the United States drank twice as much milk as soda; now they drink twice as much soda as milk.

I think for real change to happen, it's going to have to come from the kids, the community, the teachers, the parents.

One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees...

You ought to thirst for the living water.

It's the most gratifying thing to have young girls telling me, 'I love that you do a photo shoot in pants and a button up shirt, and you still look cool.'

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.

Maybe we judge people too much by their looks because it's easier than seeing what's really important.

I fell in love with flora of all types, especially ferns. Loved the sparse structure and repetition of shape - almost fractal.

I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.

He actually listened, rather than pretending to listen while waiting a suitable interval before it was his time to talk again.

We don't have to have suffered brain damage to take advantage of the plastic nature of our brains.

The 60th seed at Wimbledon gets a chance at Center Court. The 60th seed in the NCAA gets a chance to go to the Final Four. But the third seed [in presidential politics] is shut out.