Foods high in bad fats sugar and chemicals are directly linked to many negative emotions whereas whole natural foods rich in nutrients - foods such as fruits vegetables grains and legumes - contribute to greater energy and positive emotions.

Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you.

On the show we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged.

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously equally there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.

It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get there's always a part of me that's sitting there.

When they see me holding fish they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.

If we desire respect for the law we must first make the law respectable.

For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts.

I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money pay for food and put bread on the table.

An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting unstable and interactive.