"Life is but a fine wine to be sipped and favored."

“Many people put up with things that are unpleasant but tolerable, rather than changing them; their situation needs to become unbearable before they take action”

Source : Brendan Brazier (2007). “The Thrive Diet, 10th Anniversary Edition: The Plant-Based Whole Foods Way to Staying Healthy for Life”, p.37, Penguin Canada

“Almost every important choice in our lives is really just an expression of hope.”

Source : John Twelve Hawks (2010). “The Golden City”, Random House

“People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.”

“So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.”

“To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.”

“You find actually over the years that you get attributed with a lot of things you didn't do and you don't get reported on a lot of things you did do and I must say, when I read some of these things I wonder where the journalists get them from. They generally speak to somebody who's spoken to somebody who was down the back of a pub who heard the barman say, and gradually finds its way into magazines or articles but no, that's not the case.”

“I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients.”

“Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.”