The strongest animals on earth are plant eaters. Every creature we've enlisted to do the work we couldn't handle - the horse, donkey, elephant, camel, water buffalo, ox, yak - is an herbivore... whose huge muscles were built from plant protein, and whose strong bones got that way, and stayed that way, from grazing on grass and eating other vegetables.

Your mission isn't a project to check off your list. It's a commitment to which to dedicate your life.

If you've ever tried meditation and didn't stay with it, I recommend you try it again. Some time has passed. In the interim, you may have developed the discipline of mind or the patience you were short on before. Let these qualities aid your practice. (173)

"Make your plate look like a Christmas tree," I tell people, "mostly green with splashes of other bright colors."

In this moment, there is plenty of time. In this moment, you are precisely as you should be. In this moment, there is infinite possibility.

I realize that I'm a mature woman and one of these days, incredible diet or not, I'll be a little old lady.

Because love encompasses everything, nothing is unimportant, including tonight's dinner menu. Think about it for a minute. If you were pure love, the loving parent of all life, how would you want people to eat?