I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.

It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.

I make it a rule never to smoke while I’m sleeping.

This healthy eating stuff, it’s here to stay, and we now have everything we need to seize the opportunity and give all our kids the healthy futures they so richly deserve.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

Sooner or later we’re all someone’s dog.

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

Water is life, and clean water means health.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer’s you are an old fart. That’s how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.

Every chef I know, their cholesterol is through the roof. And mine’s not so great.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

One day it will be over, and I don’t care.

Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.

You will always have partial points of view, and you’ll always have the story behind the story that hasn’t come out yet. And any form of journalism you’re involved with is going to be up against a biased viewpoint and partial knowledge.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

I’d rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I’m wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don’t see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you’re hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

This isn’t life in the fast lane, it’s life in the oncoming traffic.

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It’s just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It’s inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

What I tell my kids is, ‚I’m preparing you for college and for life. So, having independence, knowing how to set your own boundaries, figuring out how to make that balance. We still have screen-time rules.‘

A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

With all the… success that I’ve been lucky enough to get? That doesn’t happen unless the home life is solid.

You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

If I went back to my 20-year-old self, what I would tell my 20-year-old self is, ‚You don’t know anything.‘ Because everyone, when they’re young, they think they know what’s going on in the world, and you don’t.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.