At its best, [Japanese cooking] is inextricably meshed with aesthetics, with religion, with tradition and history. It is evocative of seasonal changes, or of one's childhood, or of a storm at sea.

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

I love the power women have. I think women rule the world because they rule men. Manipulating men - that's our job. That's what we're on the planet for.

Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.

If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.

No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away.

My heart's in the right place. I know, 'cuz I hid it there.

Bipolar disorder can be a great teacher. It's a challenge, but it can set you up to be able to do almost anything else in your life.

I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I'm still surviving it, but bring it on. Better me than you.

There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap."

How brave a ladybug must be! Each drop of rain is big as she. Can you imagine what you'd do, If raindrops fell as big as you?

The only weapon you are allowed to kill anyone with is kindness.

All too often people concentrate on finding the right spouse, little realizing that half of any marriage is being the right spouse.

Time does not dispose of a question - it only presents it anew in a different guise.

Nature is more like a seesaw than a crystal, a never-ending conga line of bold moves and corrections.

We should learn from children not to hold grudges. Children often fight when they play together but they quickly make up and their fights don't deteriorate into bitter feuds.

After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?

I can teach a chimp how to make linguini and clams. I can't teach a chimp to dream about it and think about how great it is.

You've got to embrace the future. You can whine about it, but you've got to embrace it.

We don't have a prayer of defeating the Red Threat of our generation without a long boom of almost unprecedented duration.

God sendeth cold after clothes.