"There's never been a culture that wasn't obsessed with food. The sort of sad thing is that our obsession is no longer with food, but with the price of food."

"Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they won't need you. It's like the real tragedy of parenting."

"The question, I've come to think, is not what inspires one to change, but what inspires one to remain changed."

"There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use of antibiotics hasn't happened: The factory farm industry, allied with the pharmaceutical industry, has more power than public-health professionals."

"A life well-lived leaves an aroma of kindness long after the sun has set. Remember this in moments of decisive trial — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Wisdom principle 29 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 94."

"I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about me, but that's not how I've chosen to lead my life. I knew that you put yourself under a microscope the more famous you become."

"Wisdom principle 46 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 2."