I was...labelled as an advocate because...I measured something.

If you have a busy natural foods store in your community, give their bulk cornmeal a try: high turnover means the product will most likely be fresh. And if the cornmeal is organic, all the better.

Sometimes you win by losing.

But since you're asking me, I'll tell you my opinion: all cornbread is authentic, as long as it's good, hot, and made with love and fresh ingredients.

Many of America's historical cornbreads were staple breads for people who didn't have many other options.

I tested a lot of old cornbread recipes and most of them were bland or tough.

That said, there are certainly still cooks out there who make fantastic historical cornbreads, though the old recipes have often been changed to include modern techniques and ingredients.

My mission in life is to try and get to a point where my insides world is not affected by the outside world.

I have spent far too many years trying to make everybody like me. It's not possible. People can say or think what they want.

Most cornmeal producers dont tell you when their cornmeal was milled, which makes it difficult to know how long the product has been sitting in the store before you bought it.

When in doubt, throw it out.

When a belief becomes more than an instrument, you are lost. You remain lost until you learn what 'belief' is really for.

It still amazes him how they could have been misled by her personality in Year Eleven. It's what depression does to a person, it changes them completely.

You breathe.You feel.You seeand hearand smelland tasteand thinkand moveand laughand weepand healand danceand singand love.Thank your mother.

Such are the foolish dreams of idealistic children who believe that anything can possibly get better over time.

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

Stupidity is an attempt to iron out all differences, and not to use them or value them creatively.

It is the business of economists, not to tell us what to do, but show why what we are doing anyway is in accord with proper principles.

It would be a joke if the conduct of the victor had to be justified to the vanquished.

Necessity inspires the fatal thought.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.