"There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices."

“The White House looked into a plan that would allow illegal immigrants to stay in the United States. The plan called for a million Mexicans to marry a million of our ugliest citizens.”

“What we eat is a matter of life and death.”

Source : Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman (2012). “Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness”, p.57, A&C Black

“The true Way is sublime. It can't be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can't read a word.”

“Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society , hence they do not believe in vote begging, nor political campaigns, but rather in the development of self-thinking individuals . We look away from government for relief, because we know that force (legalized) invades the personal liberty of man, seizes upon the natural elements and intervenes between man and natural laws; from this exercise of force through governments flows nearly all the misery , poverty , crime and confusion existing in society .”

“The growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.”

Source : Sarah Orne Jewett (2009). “The Country of the Pointed Firs”, p.36, Broadview Press

“Nothing would please me more, but who else would pump the oil that we need? God damn America.”

“Cookery is naturally the most ancient of the arts, as of all arts it is the most important.”

“Exercise keeps me occupied, which is good for my mental health.”