“We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to become much more than what we are.”

“Only when we eat up this planet will God give us another. We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.”

“They are not afraid of what we are against, they are afraid of what we are for. What we are for is so much more powerful than what we are against.”

“But all I could make use of was all that was valuable. I had enough to eat and to supply my wants, and what was all the rest to me? If I killed more flesh than I could eat, the dog must eat it, or the vermin. If I sowed more corn than I could eat, it must be spoiled. The trees that I cut down were lying to rot on the ground. I could make no more use of them than for fewel; and that I had no occasion for, but to dress my food.In a word, the nature and experience of things dictated to me, upon just reflection, that all the good things of this world are no farther good to us than they are for our use; and that whatever we may heap up indeed to give others, we enjoy just as much as we can use and no more.”

“We are only what we know, and I wished to be so much more than I was, sorely.”

“it's much more interesting to try and understand what binds two people together. why we stay with each other is much more of a mystery than why we don't.”