"The body of a dead enemy always smells sweet."

“Modern medicine has created more co-dependents even than co-pays. We've learned to hold out for a magic bullet such as a new miracle drug, breakthrough surgical procedure or new organ transplant. What rubbish.”

Source : "Helping People Doctor Themselves". Interview with Richard A. Passwater, wholefoodsmagazine.com. January 18, 2013.

“A car designer is really a sculptor.”

“I grew up listening to Commission, Kirk Franklin and Hezekiah Walker. If I was found listening to any rap, my pops would throw them out, or crush the CDs and tapes - literally.”

“Not many people are true, fake as the lies they tell”

“Bank of America is to sweetheart loans and Democratic Party payoffs as Paula Deen is to sugar and bacon grease.”

“What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live - with your self-respect alive and growing.”

“By reacting to aggression with aggression we lose the opportunity to spiritually benefit from the experience.”

Source : Kyriacos C. Markides (2002). “The Mountain of Silence: A Search for Orthodox Spirituality”, p.222, Image

“Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.”