The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.

Food and medicine are not two different things: they are the front and back of one body. Chemically grown vegetables may be eaten for food, but they cannot be used as medicine.

Until there is a reversal of the sense of values which cares more for size and appearance than for quality, there will be no solving the problem of food pollution.

People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.

What do you actually need? Food, clothing and shelter. Everything else is entertainment.

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.

Art's whatever you choose to frame.

We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time.

I pulled the plug on it at a time that I thought was right for me to exit.

I want to get into movies, not just TV series.

I have a lot of fans in the Tea Party, and they disagree with me vehemently. But they're fans, so we meet and connect and talk, so I'm open to everything.

I'd shoot zero percent before I'd shoot underhanded.

In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd just to stand there mute and play 25 banjo songs.