Forced worship stinks in God's nostrils

The greatest crime is not developing your potential. When you do what you do best, you are helping not only yourself, but the world.

It is less hurtful to compel a man to marry someone whom he does not love than to follow a religion in which he does not believe.

God is too large to be housed under one roof.

The sovereign power of all civil authority is founded in the consent of the people.

When they have opened a gap in the ... wall of separation between the Garden of the Church and the wildernes of the world, God hath ever ... made his Garden a Wildernesse.

The human body heals itself and nutrition provides the resources to accomplish the task.

When in doubt, use nutrition first.

That cannot be a true religion which needs carnal weapons to uphold it.

Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained.

A false worship will not hurt the civil state if the worshipper breaks no civil law.

Nothing can give you peace if there is no calmness in your mind.

In the case of good books the point is not to see how many of them you can get through but rather how many can get through to you.

As a chef and father, it kills me that children are fed processed foods, fast food clones, foods loaded with preservatives and high-fructose corn syrup.

Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.

Morality has nothing in common with politics.

The two greatest mannequins of the century were Gertrude Stein and Edith Sitwell - unquestionably. You just couldn't take a bad picture of those two old girls

Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.

••If you work with a jackhammer during an earthquake, stop, otherwise you are working for nothing.

Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man

The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time.