Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.

Did you ever see the customers in health - food stores? They are pale, skinny people who look half - dead. In a steak house, you see robust, ruddy people. They're dying, of course, but they look terrific.

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.