"Hiking is really great for centering; you get to be out in nature and although sometimes it seems like hell when you're getting up that mountain, it always feels good when you're done."

“An osteopath is only a human engineer, who should understand all the laws governing his engine and thereby master disease.”

Source : Andrew Taylor Still, George Van O'Linda Webster (1935). “Sage Sayings of Still: Selected from the Writings of Dr. A.T. Still; with a Historical Sketch of Osteopathy and an Appreciation of Dr. Still”

“Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.”

“Don’t portray yourself as who you want to be. Portray yourself as who you are.”

“In Jewish tradition, death-defying devotion to scholarship was the stuff of saintliness.”

Source : Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

“The doctrine of Jesus is the most revolutionary propaganda that I have ever encountered.”

Source : Lincoln Steffens (1962). “The World of Lincoln Steffens”

“If you want good things to happen in your life you first have to believe good things are possible for yourself. Quit allowing negative and cynical thinking to get in the way of the good life you deserve.”

“It is quite likely that the modern contrivances for making Sunday-schools amusing have given them a distate for the more solemn services of the sanctuary. If so, the amusement is a sin. The schools should feed the church. Children ought to be led by one into the other, exposed to the preaching of the gospel, taught the ways of God's house, and brought up under its influence, with all its hallowed and elevating influences.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p.572, 1895.

“Switching to the outfield was the best break I ever got.”