The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

The sight of you is good for sore eyes.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

Everything about you resonates happinessNo I won't settle for less

Before I started writing about food, my focus was really on the human relationship to plants. Not only do plants nourish us bodily - they nourish us psychologically.

The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them

If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn't bother to find new ones.

Exploration is wired into our brains. If we can see the horizon, we want to know what's beyond.

I'd never allow myself to let myself call myself a coward.

Earlier this week Donald Trump gave an interview with CNN at a winery he owns in Virginia. It turns out Trump's winery makes two different kinds of wine: white wine and not-white wine.

I wouldn't presume to know something, but I have lots to learn and that's what I attempt to do through my work.

We should throw the Epistle of James out of this school.

You are always and forever in the moment of pure creation. So create who and what you are, and then experience that.