Is God a man with two arms and legs like me? Does He have eyes, a head? Does He have bowels? Well I do, and that makes me more wonderful than He is!

I am, I think the only surviving member of the original Battle Creek church. The church was disbanded, with the exception of thirteen members, in 1870.

A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food.

Disease is cured by the body itself, not by doctors or remedies.

I believe the Sabbath; I keep the Sabbath.

When we eat vegetarian foods, we needn't worry about what kind of disease our food died from; this makes a joyful meal!

A man that lives on pork, fine-flour bread, rich pies and cakes, and condiments, drinks tea and coffee, and uses tobacco, might as well try to fly as to be chaste in thought.

The power in which we must have faith if we would be well, is the creative and curative power which exists in every living thing.

All fresh meat is eaten in a state of decay. The process may not have proceeded so far that the dull human nose can discover it, but a carrion bird or a carrion fly can smell it from afar.

The tobacco business is a conspiracy against womanhood and manhood. It owes its origin to that scoundrel Sir Walter Raleigh, who was likewise the founder of American slavery.

The influence of coffee in stimulating the genital organs is notorious.

It's who you is when folks knocks at the door of your heart what counts. Hide the past and it gives them what's jealous of you the power to bring you undone.

People are valuable, Mistress Vin, and so—therefore—are their beliefs.

I still have issues around forgetting that it's my life and if I want to do something, I can do it.

Doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican in Michigan. We want jobs in Michigan.

Even in the busiest lives, there is room for a sacred pause. Between actions, pause and remember who you are.

If your desire is to be successful or to make a positive impact on your world, you need to become a person of influence.

It is about getting a sense of integrity about issues. That was was my enlightenment over it and knowing that I had a safe place to go to handle anything in life.

rummaging in the storehouses of religious or literary history for myth-matter for ideational uses is of the nature of spiritual vulgarity.

You train hard and I'll train hard, and may the best man win, and good luck to both of us.

I think people are surprised to learn that Im pretty goofy and pretty funny.