Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

It is therefore absurd to approach the subject of health piecemeal with a departmentalized band of specialists. A medical doctor uninterested in nutrition, in agriculture, in the wholesomeness of mind and spirit is as absurd as a farmer who is uninterested in health. Our fragmentation of this subject cannot be our cure, because it is our disease. The body cannot be whole alone. Persons cannot be whole alone. It is wrong to think that bodily health is compatible with spiritual confusion or cultural disorder, or with polluted air and water or impoverished soil.

We clasp the hands of those who go before us.

To mind being disliked by a woman you don’t desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common sense.

It's kind of alarming for me to realize that, when I'm writing stories about times I remember, it's already historical fiction.

The presence of the present has become insistent, undeniable, and I dare not look away.

A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that one therefore needs to understand the past.