Nowadays, if you have a journey, albeit a simple one, you consider yourself lucky if nothing happens.

Good manners make any man a pleasure to be with. Ask any woman.

Depending on the inflection, ah bon can express shock, disbelief, indifference, irritation, or joy - a remarkable achievment for two short words.

Best advice I've ever received: Finish.

I'd rather live precariously in my own office than comfortably in somebody else's.

The English kill their meat twice: once when they slaughter it and once when they cook it.

No matter what their background, the southern French are fascinated by food.

Why not make a daily pleasure out a daily necessity.

You don't like it when a French housewife gets mad at you. If she gets steam behind her, she is an unstoppable creature.

There is nothing like a comfortable adventure to put people in a good humor. . .

Prescription for writer’s block: fear of poverty.

The subject may be crude and repulsive. Its expression is artistically modulated and balanced. This is style. This is art. This is the only thing that really matters in books.

Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal and social change.

Every day give yourself a good mental shampoo.

A person only likes his friend to the degree he or she relates and connects to his character.

If you're sick, take your sick day. If you don't take your sick day, know what your reward is? You weren't sick - that was the reward.

Hesitation only enlarges, magnifies the fear. Take action promptly. Be decisive.

I am not a violent person. I actually don't like to hurt people.

If the past year were offered me again, And choice of good and ill before me set Would I accept the pleasure with the pain Or dare to wish that we had never met?

I will make time to eat every day. I couldn't do as much as I do, actually, if I didn't eat.

We're not just dogmatic about this-we're bulldog-matic! Sola Scriptura is non-negotiable!