Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything.

….it was a brave man’s fear. I knew what he meant. What must a brave general feel when he knows the battle has gone against him and nothing remains but death?

If a rich man drinks alcohol, he will easily become a poor. If a poor man does not drink alcohol, he will easily become rich.

French cooking is really the result of peasants figuring out how to extract flavor from pedestrian ingredients. So most of the food that we think of as elite didn't start out that way.

Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.

But I was only a chaotic walker, nobody could stop me; even a totalitarian state was not able to control my daydreams, my poetic fascinations, the pattern of my walking.

A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.” Benjamin Franklin

High honors are sweet To a man's heart, but ever They stand close to the brink of grief.

You live by the cake, you die by the cake.

A grateful heart ... comes through expressing gratitude to our Heavenly Father for His blessings and to those around us for all that they bring into our lives.

Strong and content I travel the open road.

The bashful beggar has an empty purse.