Although I am a person who expected to be rooted in one spot forever, as it has turned out I love having the memories of living in many places.

Life offers you a thousand chances... all you have to do is take one.

There is no technique, there is just the way to do it. Now, are we going to measure or are we going to cook?

It’s daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when the language is incomprehensible.

Five tender apricots in a blue bowl, a brief and exact promise of things to come.

A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice.

I had the urge to examine my life in another culture and move beyond what I knew.

Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different.

If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.

Where is it written that houses must be beige? Any dun colored house would look better if painted pineapple, cream, ochre, or even a smart sage.

Sometimes the valley below is like a bowl filled up with fog. I can see hard green figs on two trees and pears on a tree just below me. A fine crop coming in. May summer last a hundred years.

I think the reward of you is worth the risk.

All of the great mastermind thinkers throughout history have known that we become our thoughts.

When the truth is dispensed it is for the good of all, always.

The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.

Basketball really is a metaphor for life - the intangible skills I have learned on the court, have helped shape the person I am today.

It is hard to say which is the greatest fool: he who tells the whole truth, or he who tells no truth at all. Character is as necessary in business as in trade. No man can deceive often in either.

Reality has become a parallel universe with photographers returning with different versions of what it truly looks like.

Profanity is the result of a weak mind trying to express itself forcably.

The more fears we walk through, the more power we reclaim.

Candy within reach and then I have to go on a diet.