I am more afraid of my own heart than of the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope Self.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

The time is always right to do what is right.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

The time is always right to do the right thing.

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.

I had a standing agreement with god. I'd agree to believe in him, barely, so long as he let me sleep in on Sundays.

Our spiritual character is formed as much by what we endure and what is taken from us as it is by our achievements and our conscious choices.

As long as I can buy records and books and maybe some clothes, I'm pretty stoked. I don't need a yacht or anything.

I was never without a book in my hand.

You can't please everyone, especially if you're doing very radical things at the vanguard of cooking. That's life; it's a polemic I've lived with since I started cooking.

Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.

If you really know... what you want and how to get there, then everything else really falls into place.

Gratitude: An imaginary emotion that rewards an imaginary behavior, altruism. Both imaginaries are false faces for selfishness, which is a real and honest emotion.

It is dissent from government policies which defines the true Patriot

It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.