Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.

Behavior shapes emotions.

Giulia Melucci has written a wonderfully funny and moving book. It's like Eat, Pray, Love, with recipes.

The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.

Sometimes miracles occur only when you jump in.

There's a lot of food restriction in the Bible, but it does say you're allowed to eat crickets, grasshoppers, and locusts. I decided to take advantage of that and eat a cricket. It was chocolate-covered, and I'm not sure that's the way they were served in Moses' time. But this was a rule that seemed crazy on the outside, then actually turned out to be pragmatic and compassionate.

I know that you should always say yes to adventures or you'll lead a very dull life.