"My grandma used to plant tomato seedlings in tin cans from tomato sauce & puree & crushed tomatoes she got from the Italian restaurant by her house, but she always soaked the labels off first. I don't want them to be anxious about the future, she said. It's not healthy."

“Like anybody, I like clothes, and I enjoy what I like to wear. We might have a difference in personal outfit choices. Some might not like it. But to judge someone because of their appearance is pretty foolish. If you have time to do that, I suggest you look at yourself in the mirror and spend more time developing yourself. Come on, it's 2013.”

“Magic consists of creating, by misdirection of the senses, the mental impression of supernatural agency at work. That, and only that, is what modern magic really is, and that meaning alone is now assignable to the term.”

“Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot”

“Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.”

“You don't fight for peace. You Peace for Peace.”

“I have done a lot of things off the field but I feel like in my heart I dont really have to publicize what I do for people because it is from my heart.”

“My friend Kurt Maix once described this diffidence as Fear's friendly sister, the right and necessary counterweight to that courage that urges men skyward, and protects them from self-destruction.”

Source : "The White Spider: The Classic Account of the Ascent of the Eiger".

“Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.”

Source : "The Plot Against People". The New York Times, June 18, 1968.