To please men and to kill parasites are the only uses tobacco-its ultimate effects are the same in both cases.

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.

Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.

Don't be jealous, be agressive. Make 2012 yours!

Be a mirror of life. Let everyone see their own astonishing beauty in your mirror.

The future is completely open and so is the past. And we are writing them right now. Making a different past or future is only up to us now.

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes to hear it is to see it with our ears.

I live on a bicycle...I live in central London, probably 90 percent of my travel is done on a bicycle. I love bicycles.

Africans only perceive themselves as victims.

God gave us laughter, I think, as a balm to wash the wounds of our own blunders, as a splint to mend the bones we break in our rashness or vanity.

No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.

There's always something every night that I learn from reacting to what the audience is reacting to. You learn what to leave out, what to put in, if you need a little more comedy or more drama.