"Neglecting your health is the equivalent to spitting in the face of everyone fighting to stay alive and of those who have lost their fight."

“How many of us would be able to overcome our desires and resist the temptation of sin? How many of us even lower our gaze when we look upon something that we are not supposed to? The real prisoner is the one whose heart has been kept away from remembering his Lord, and the real captive is the one who has been captivated by his whims and desires.”

“I've really gone into business since I got the 6 string, which was like starting all over.”

“The warrior is Here, Now.”

“I love trains. I dont even mind First Great Western, which is a stupid name because it implies every carriage is first class, but theyre not.”

“One of the stock Sydney jokes is of the census-taker who enquires: 'How many children have you, ma'am?' 'Two living and three in Melbourne.'”

“When you want knowledge and understanding as badly as you wanted air, you won't have to ask anyone to give it to you.”

“The president broke his bond with the public. Once that bond was broken, he no longer had the capacity to talk to the American public. State of the Union addresses? It didn't matter. Legislative initiatives? It didn't matter. P.R.? It didn't matter. Travel? It didn't matter.”

“Why does no one speak of the cultural advantages of the country? For example, is a well groomed, ecologically kept, sustainably fertile farm any less cultural, any less artful, than paintings of fat angels on church ceilings?”

Source : Gene Logsdon (2000). “Living at Nature's Pace: Farming and the American Dream”, p.53, Chelsea Green Publishing