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

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.

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

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

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.

Morning is a song that succeeds the music of dawn...

God is merciful to those who want to love Him and who have placed their hopes in Him.

Be careful with the kind of company you keep, because behaviors and habits are very contagious.

I do not think there was anything abusive in my house. Yet, I stand by a lot of my critiques of Western parenting. I think there's a lot of questions about how you instill true self-esteem.

You own a dog with the knowledge that it will move through the stages of existence in fast forward, providing you with a lesson about your own life passages if you let it.

By the time Talking Heads were starting, my feeling was to throw out everything and start from scratch onstage; strip it down to as close to zero as you can get and then you can make it yours.

To be an entrepreneur, it just takes a lot of persistence, dedication, and drive. No matter what happens, you have to be wiling to get back up and try again.

The world's state sponsor of terrorism is now on path, sanctioned by the United States, to create nuclear weapons. We are going to make it possible for them.

Anything that is impractical can be play. It's doing something other than what is necessary to continue living as an animal.

To acquire style, begin by affecting none.