You can be in excellent physical shape, with low cholesterol, a healthy body weight and good overall physical fitness - but that doesn't necessarily mean you're healthy.

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.

You do not give your precious body to the billy clubs of Birmingham sheriffs, nor to the insidious activity of the streets.

If you are happy then you are the winner in the race we call life.

I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me.

I feel better about my life every day. My kids get older. My life is very rich and full of wonderful things. I've been very lucky, careerwise.

Yoga is the fountain of youth. You're only as young as your spine is flexible.

Maybe wanting to retire is my ambition.

You've got to realize that the world's a test, You can only do your best and let Him do the rest. You've got your life, and got your health, So quit procrastinating and push it yourself.

You could tie my hands to my sides, I suppose, but I have to write. For my own mental health, I need to write.

People in love look into each other's souls, and it is that feeling that I try to capture when I sing.

Punch me." "Don't be absurd." "Come on, punch me, Barrons." "I'm not punching you." "I said, punch--OW!" He decked me.