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?

To the people who love you, you are beautiful already. This is not because they're blind to your shortcomings but because they so clearly see your soul. Your shortcomings then dim by comparison. The people who care about you are willing to let you be imperfect and beautiful, too.

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.

Moderation is actually the flip side of dieting, that is, imposed deprivation.

My calling, as one imperfect human, is to celebrate and uphold life every time I get the chance.

Gandhi was a David with no material weapon.. not even a slingshot.

I firmly believe that everyone deserves to live within walking distance of either beauty or convenience, if not both.