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.

Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance.

Each day as I travel through downtown Tucson, I am amazed at how quickly the most ancient of human behaviors have changed. For as long as there have been Homo sapiens - roughly 200,000 years - people have filled their lives principally with two activities: talking directly with other people, and doing physical things.

Human bodies are designed for regular physical activity. The sedentary nature of much of modern life probably plays a significant role in the epidemic incidence of depression today. Many studies show that depressed patients who stick to a regimen of aerobic exercise improve as much as those treated with medication.

We need to accept the seemingly obvious fact that a toxic environment can make people sick and that no amount of medical intervention can protect us. The health care community must become a powerful political lobby for environmental policy and legislation.

Routines may include taking a warm bath or a relaxing walk in the evening, or practicing meditation/relaxation exercises. Psychologically, the completion of such a practice tells your mind and body that the day's work is over and you are free to relax and sleep.

One of the most obvious ways dogs can improve our physical and mental health is via daily walks.

Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food.

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

The way to know life is to love many things.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.

When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way - you suddenly have a new perspective on them.

You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it.

Today's business and health care climate may not be pleasant. Cutbacks, pay cuts and layoffs do not make anyone's job easy. But that does not mean that the humor need stop.

No matter what has happened, you too have the power to enjoy yourself.

Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.

It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual.

A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way.

In looking for humor, keep in mind this guideline: Sometimes it takes a little time to see the humor in your upsets; you may not find something to laugh about immediately.

Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.

Any attempts at humor immediately after September 11th were deemed tasteless.

Humor can be one of our best survival tools.

Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.

Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.

Advertisers also know that humor can help bond us to their product.

When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits.