"I felt so much lighter. My joints felt smoother, everything felt better. I could run and breathe easier. … I’ve always been a guy who has done everything I can to help myself. Any little advantage I can find, I’m going to do it. I felt like this really gave me an edge. … It’s not too tough now. I would say the first six months, maybe a year, is pretty tough because you’re totally reprogramming what you look for to fill your plate up."

"317 is a prime, not because we think so, or because our minds are shaped in one way rather than another, but because it is, because mathematical reality is built that way."

"All of us prefer what is friendly, sincere, pleasant - nice. But in an immiserated world of pervasive and real crisis, which should be causing all of us to radically reassess everything, the nice can …"

"There were all kinds of things I was afraid of at first, ranging from grizzly bears to 'mean' horses and gun-fighters; but by acting as if I was not afraid I gradually ceased to be afraid."

"Power as is really divided, and as dangerously to all purposes, by sharing with another an Indirect Power, as a Direct one."