I like to watch Bourdain and Andrew Zimmern, because I like them when they travel. I like Ina Garten, 'The Barefoot Contessa.' Giada is really nice, but I get a little bit bored with just staying in the kitchen.

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

In 'Citizens United v. FEC', the Supreme Court ruled that sections of the federal campaign finance law known as McCain-Feingold imposed unconstitutional restrictions on the First Amendment rights of corporations.

Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist.

You can't be afraid to fail. It's the only way you succeed - you're not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

One of the reasons it's so difficult to study the relationship between diet and disease is because many dietary behaviors are associated with non-dietary behaviors.

I have spent many years working in education and media, from hosting documentaries to being a spokesperson for Discovery Education to revolutionizing youth environmental service through my non-profit, EarthEcho International.

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.

I think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway.

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

I wanted to write something visual that I could read to the children. This was when I created the idea of Redwall Abbey in my imagination. As I wrote, the idea grew, and the manuscript along with it.

I would like to say every moment counts for you, so make the time that you spend for your dreams a very special moment, make sure that you do something that you'll be happy with when you go back and look at yourself.

A lot of people hoped that I died during my ill health. Some even reached out to the vice-president to consider them to be his deputy because they assumed I was dead.

The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.

One death is a tragedy, and a million deaths are a statistic.

I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks.

Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives.