The future of human society. Had it made an irrevocably false start? The compass error that gets harder to correct with every mile you go?

All food is the gift of the gods and has something of the miraculous, the egg no less than the truffle.

In Europe, where human relations like clothes are supposed to last, one's got to be wearable. In France one has to be interesting, in Italy pleasant, in England one has to fit.

public opinion, the sum of private opinions, does matter, can matter often for good.

I write because I'm a writer. It is rather like cooking: to make something out of the raw material at hand.

All wealth is relative; and so is its absence.

It would seem that in history it's never a tooth for a tooth, but a thousand, a hundred thousand for one.

Did you think your boyfriend was going to stick around and watch you do THAT? If we weren’t related, I would’ve left too. Actually…is it already too late for me to leave?

The successful man is he who when he sees that no further certainty is attainable promptly decides on the most probable side as if he were completely sure it was right.

Justice of right is always to take precedence over might.

I'd like to work on putting art programs back in schools.

And because no matter who you are, if you believe in yourself and your dream, New York will always be the place for you.

Prestige and premium will also play an important role in the future. But some people define these values differently today.

Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men and all nations.

Am I keeping my promises?

Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.

Haste makes work which caution prevents.