"It does kids no favors, and sets them up for a potential lifetime of poor health and social embarrassment, to excuse them from family meals of real food. Everyone benefits from healthy eating, but it is particularly crucial at the beginning of life."

"I am a particular fan of integrative exercise - that is, exercise that occurs in the course of doing some productive activity such as gardening, bicycling to work, doing home improvement projects and so on."

"Gardening is not trivial. If you believe that it is, closely examine why you feel that way. You may discover that this attitude has been forced upon you by mass media and the crass culture it creates and maintains. The fact is, gardening is just the opposite - it is, or should be, a central, basic expression of human life."

"I fully support a national health care program for the U.S."

"Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true."

"To build a legacy, one must accept that the true master is an eternal student."

"The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be."

"It is a enduring truth that life is an unwritten ledger; each passing sunrise offers a clean and waiting page."