Above all, keep it simple.

Original, in French: La bonne cuisine est la base du véritable bonheur. English: Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.

Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.

The greatest dishes are very simple.

Soup puts the heart at ease, calms down the violence of hunger, eliminates the tension of the day, and awakens and refines the appetite.

People who do not accept the new, grow old very quickly.

Indeed, stock is everything in cooking. Without it, nothing can be done.

Good food is the basis of true happiness

So long as people don't know how to eat they will not have good cooks.

Of all the items on the menu, soup is that which exacts the most delicate perfection and the strictest attention.

Rice is the best, the most nutritive and unquestionably the most widespread staple in the world.

Ignorance is avoiding that which stands in front of me out of the misplaced hope that it will put what I’m ignoring behind me. Instead, it’s most certain to drop it on top of me.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

It is destiny phrase of the weak human heart! 'It is destiny' dark apology for every error! The strong and virtuous admit no destiny

If life was what you made of it, then it could not be made for you.

I felt a lot of ambivalence about going back to graduate school for a second MFA. The impulse was really the opposite from what it had been more than a decade before: I wanted to interrupt a career.

I'm not white-picket-fence perfect.

Some people have said Brother Khalid was a villain, but we know he was a victim in a world that is evil. Racism and injustice are the real villains here.

Every moment is enormous and it is all we have.

Modern man has lost the option of silence.