At the end of the day, when the food has all been served and savored, what's left is your connection to the people around your fire

What keeps me motivated is not the food itself but all the bonds and memories the food represents.

Gerry Dawes, I can't thank you enough for opening up Spain to me.

The senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour. Hubert Humphrey, as quoted by Biden, p. 134

The air is the most mysterious, the most exciting, the most challenging of all the elements. We leave the planet, we leave the sea, we leave the earth. The air is no longer of this world .

Our safety is not in blindness, but in facing our dangers.

Improve your performance by improving your attitude.

This sounds geeky, but when I run, I like to listen to musicals like Les Miserables. The soundtracks are 75 minutes or longer, and I keep going until the story ends, so it feels like a good workout.

The reason why China suffers bitterly from endless wars is because of the existence of feudal lords and kings.

Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray.

They thought that I was a man with reasonable judgment, so I was never under pressure from my parents; I could do whatever I wanted. I never had a negative word from them, nothing whatsoever.

Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak; care not for the reward of your speaking, but simply and with undivided mind for the truth of your speaking.

I keep thinking I'm a grown up, but I'm not.