There is absolutely no substitute for the best. Good food cannot be made of inferior ingredients masked with high flavor. It is true thrift to use the best ingredients available and to waste nothing.

The only thing that will make a souffle fall is if it knows you're afraid of it.

The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it… If you’re convinced that cooking is drudgery, you’re never going to be good at it, and you might as well warm up something frozen.

If I had to narrow my choice of meats down to one for the rest of my life, I am quite certain that meat would be pork.

Too many simple green salads suffer from a lack of imagination.

When you cook, you never stop learning. That's the fascination of it all.

I don't like gourmet cooking or 'this' cooking or 'that' cooking. I like good cooking.

Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.

The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it.

Too few people understand a really good sandwich.

A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.

As long as he deceived himself about the truth, he could blame fortune and have confidence in the future. Now the clouds of madness were closing round his mind.

Spirituality is a way of life. it is not just doing meditation.

To Jane's horror, he unfolded her paper and read aloud. "Possible Candidates as Lovers.

People want to join a great story. If you want to lead, tell one with your life.

I think the simpler it is when you have a crazy character to play is almost more creepy and interesting.

Photography by nature is spiritual, considering it comes from the darkness to show the light.

Be sure to expose yourself to criticism: A fine polish requires an abrasive.

The art of peace is medicine for a sick worldit does not rely on weapons or brute force to succeed

Someone who says "I am busy" is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you.

September twenty-second, Sir, the bough cracks with unpicked apples, and at dawn the small-mouth bass breaks water, gorged with spawn.